Me too! From what I can tell the coralites are round with distinct walls for each coralite (definitely not favites). Each one is really tiny, just a mm or 2, if that info helps identify. Here are some images from when I first received it, the skeleton is more visible.
This one I can’t tell either. Maybe we can see what it looks like when it grows out.
Did the rock have the porites on it when you got it? If not, where was the rock from? If it was from the Caribbean/Atlantic, it is probably not a merulinid as the only merulinid that occurs there is orbicella, which looks different.Got this hitchhiker on the rock a porites frag was on. Wondering if someone could help with an ID? I can definitely see a stony skeleton. Favia maybe? Originally only had 3-4 eyes. Each ‘eye’ is tiny, like a mm or less. Thanks!
Thanks! Could be, that’s the problem, half the pics I look at, look like maybe….. I’ll look into mycedium more and see if I can find anything that rules it in or out.Do you think it's Mycedium? I found this pic and description that seem pretty close... (it's not the same coloration as yours, but otherwise seems to match)
Peacock Coral (Mycedium sp.) is hard coral of variable shape and color. It may be flat and fan-shaped or it may have irregular finger-like lobe growths. Color ranges from brown or gold to neon green, with new growth areas being lighter in color. These corals require high light and good conditions for optimum growth and are best kept in mature aquariums.
Mycedium corals are very similar to Echinophyllia and Oxypora corals. The edges of the colony in Oxypora corals are much more ridged than the smoother, rolls appearance of the edges of Mycedium colonies. The ridges radiating from the center of the colony are also more serrated and tooth-like in Echinophyllia corals than in Mycedium. The raised corallites in Mycedium are also inclined towards the perimeter of the colony.
Judging from the skeleton, I don’t think it would be a mycedium, or any sort of chalice.Do you think it's Mycedium? I found this pic and description that seem pretty close... (it's not the same coloration as yours, but otherwise seems to match)
Peacock Coral (Mycedium sp.) is hard coral of variable shape and color. It may be flat and fan-shaped or it may have irregular finger-like lobe growths. Color ranges from brown or gold to neon green, with new growth areas being lighter in color. These corals require high light and good conditions for optimum growth and are best kept in mature aquariums.
Mycedium corals are very similar to Echinophyllia and Oxypora corals. The edges of the colony in Oxypora corals are much more ridged than the smoother, rolls appearance of the edges of Mycedium colonies. The ridges radiating from the center of the colony are also more serrated and tooth-like in Echinophyllia corals than in Mycedium. The raised corallites in Mycedium are also inclined towards the perimeter of the colony.
Thanks for the photos. Judging from the open polyps, I don’t think it would be a plesiastrea.It’s really small, so this was the best I could get. Thanks!
Looking from the skeleton, it could be, but looking from the flesh, it doesn’t look like it. Oulastrea usually isn’t colorful, and you can usually see the skeleton through its flesh. Also, oulastrea has clear tentacles when feeding, while your coral has opaque tentacles.I think plesiastrea can be eliminated as it doesn’t have the prominent paliform lobe that would indicate.
Do you think it could be: Oulastrea crispate?
This pic from the link below really looks a lot like it….and it had small corallites….
Zebra corals (Ouslastrea crispata) on the Shores of Singapore
Fact sheet with photos on flora and fauna of Singapore's intertidal shoreswww.wildsingapore.com
Well, that includes most of the possibilities suggested, lol
True, but it excludes oulastrea and plesiastrea.
