please help i.d. coral

petemichelle · Apr 4, 2018

please help i.d. coral. thanks in advance to everyone.

WWIII · Apr 4, 2018

Looks like Stylophora to me.

petemichelle · Apr 5, 2018

WWIII said:
Looks like Stylophora to me.

are they problematically invasive?

Krzydmnd · Apr 5, 2018

petemichelle said:
are they problematically invasive?

Fast growing but not necessarily invasive. I believe Pocillopora are the ones in that family that people consider invasive because of how they drop polyps to reproduce.

BoomCorals · Apr 5, 2018

Krzydmnd said:
Fast growing but not necessarily invasive. I believe Pocillopora are the ones in that family that people consider invasive because of how they drop polyps to reproduce.

Looks more like a pocillopora to me?

petemichelle · Apr 6, 2018

anybody else? I got really scared of the pocillopora after reports of them invasive, so I yanked them all out. this one was not doing well when I got it and then it healed and started to sprout the polyps. I of course am still realing from the pocillopora scare so any input would be greatly appreciated.