Please help me ID these 4 corals

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Got these corals pretty cheap from a lps but none were tagged so not sure exactly what they are. Id hate to just guess and end up placing and feeding them wrong.
I figure #2 is a ricordea of some sort and #3 is maybe galexea?
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Euphyllia includes hammers, torches, frogspawn, octospawn, elegance, etc just all the ones that kinda have tentacles and to the wavy dance. Not anemones tho they’re their own thing. They all like at least enough current to make their tentacles sway back and forth, not just in one direction. They can be fed larger meaty foods like frozen fish food, just make sure whatever you give them is half the size of the mouth or they can choke!
 
#1 looks to be a dead Lithophyllon, #2 is a blue ricordea florida, #3 is a galaxea no doubt, and #4 is a stylophora of some sort.
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I was thinkingit could be galaxea too, but wasnt sure.

If it is, you want to keep it far away from other corals, it is highly territorial and can strongly sting corals within and possibly over a 6 inch radius.
 
1: doesn't look so hot, honestly it looks a little like Leptoseris to me. Suppose it could be Lithophyton too, as someone suggested.
2: Ricordea florida
3: Galaxea fascicularis
4: Pocillopora, probably P. damicornis if so. Or Stylophora

Euphyllia includes hammers, torches, frogspawn, octospawn, elegance, etc just all the ones that kinda have tentacles and to the wavy dance. Not anemones tho they’re their own thing. They all like at least enough current to make their tentacles sway back and forth, not just in one direction. They can be fed larger meaty foods like frozen fish food, just make sure whatever you give them is half the size of the mouth or they can choke!

The genus Euphyllia has actually been restructured recently.
Currently the only species in the genus Euphyllia are E. glabrescens, E. paraglabrescens and E. cristata, the Torch corals. The rest have been placed in the genus Fimbriaphyllia, a revived genus from when they were first described. So the hammers and frogspawn are now F. ancora, F. paraancora, F. divisa(branch frogspawn no longer has a separate species from wall types), also F. yaeyamaensis.
Elegance corals are Catalaphyllia jardinei
I also disagree with the choking part, their mouths can expand to fit around foods, and they'll reject what they can't eat.
 
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I was going to say, 3 looks more like a galaxea than any euphyllia.

Also, Elegance Corals are technically Catalaphyllia, not Euphyllia. Although, the Euphyllia, Catalaphyllia, and Galaxea genera are all under the family Euphylidae. But then again, so is the genus Ctenella, which is what most people think of when they picture a massive generic brain coral colony.
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Thanks so much for all your help!
Sad about the Leptoseris but that was ony $5 so im not going to beat myself up about it. It's still florescing (sp?) so maybe theres still hope for it.

II have a torch and this looks nothing like it close up. heres a different pic. (Looks like a bunch of small flowers thats why i was thinking galexea )
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So just checked on the coral again and the one we thought was dead is extending polyps. We i get in close, i can see thm all swaying in the current. Yippee! Heres another pic. Just want to make sure the consensus is Leptoseris so i can glue the frag down on the right spot.
 

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Not an expert at all but in that video it kinda looks a bit like one I have, a plating hydnophora? Maybe check against pics of that one too
 
Not an expert at all but in that video it kinda looks a bit like one I have, a plating hydnophora? Maybe check against pics of that one too

This is probably right. It looks like Hydnophora pilosa. Can't believe I didn't think of that
 
I did find a pic of a blue eyed Leptoseris that looks very similar. But ill look up a hydnophora. Thanks for the heads up!
 

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