LPS Type Identification

[Poseidon03]

Hey, I got this LPS as a rescue from a tank crash. Anyone know what it is? It's been brown, and slowly getting more green. I have no idea what type of coral it is though.

 

[blaxsun]

It honestly looks more like a cluster of zoas/palys, but I'll take your word that it's an LPS.

 

[Poseidon03]

It honestly looks more like a cluster of zoas/palys, but I'll take your word that it's an LPS.

I would think the same, but it is hard and the coral is sort of fuzzy. I'll have to take a better picture tomorrow. I know most corals, and this has me stumped. My thought was a cup coral. It has been in my tank for over a month, but I've seen no PE.

 

[blaxsun]

A cup coral is a definite possibility.

 

[Stephen Glover]

Pagoda cup

 

[encrustingacro]

What does it look like with its polyps open?

 

[Stephen Glover]

Pagoda cup

sorry I was looking at the wrong picture. It’s too blurry to tell what it is.

 

[Poseidon03]

Here's the top and bottom side. As you can see, it looks like an encrusting LPS. It's super blue with all blues and brown with whites.

 

[Poseidon03]

Still not sure if this is a cup coral

 

[shakacuz]

cyphastrea?

@encrustingacro thoughts?

 

[Poseidon03]

It's weird because the parts between the polyps is fuzzy and the polyps only extend to the edge of the holes.

It's crazy, but I got a better photo from a screen shot than from after a photo. My phone always edits the photo after I take it and it is never the same. First is photo second is screen shot.......

 

[encrustingacro]

Now that I see its polyps open, my guess would be Turbinaria. Not pagoda cup ex-Turbinaria/Duncanopsammia, but something like Turbinaria reniformis or T. mesenteria.