Mystery SPS: Can you ID it?

[ginoandres]

Hey everyone!

My local family-run coral shop here in Taiwan has a beautiful neon orange SPS that they can't identify, nor can anyone I know. Does anyone have any idea what we're looking at here? It's a beautiful piece at a great price but I hesitate to buy it because I'm a beginner and have no idea about its care requirements...

 

[Diesel]

Nice piece kinda looks like a pocillopora to me.

 

[morpheas]

I would it looks a lot like a stylophora or pocillopora with the exception of the polyps... They don't look very similar mine but maybe the picture is not helping. Montipora digitata has a similar stature as well...

 

[eb2292]

I would say it looks most like a pocillopora, but possibly a little faded/bleached in color.

 

[Kungpaoshizi]

Looks like a mix between setosa and pocillopora..

 

[ginoandres]

Pocillopora sounds like the most popular speculative answer but even so, it looks a bit different, no?

 

[happyhourhero]

Looks like a fire coral with its polyps withdrawn.

 

[DLuce510]

I'm gonna go out side the box a little, looking at the small pyramid shaped polyps and shape I would say it appears to be a Orange Psammocora. A little bleached and the branching structure is unusual but that's what I would out my money on.

 

[Salty1962]

Is the structure hard or soft?

 

[ReeferBee]

branching psammocora

 

[scchase]

Psammacora 99%, real question is why haven't we seen any orange branching ones like that here.

 

[DLuce510]

I've had one for a while, found it at my lfs under the frag rack, this one looks either bleached or in a ulns. I will say I haven't seen any branch like that but ironically I just came across this a few minutes ago.