Coral ID Please

[Sour137]

So with this one, I have literally no idea where to begin with the ID, it could either be an LPS or a softy. I got it from a tank breakdown in denver, and looking over his list of corals I couldn't find anything that really fits the description. I believe it is on a piece of liverock, and it seems to be covering it more than anything. That piece of rock rising out of it was originally covered in hair algae but in the time that it has been in my tank the algae has retreated to be replaced by new polys. Let me know what you think.

 

[SynDen]

Looks like a meteor shower

 

[scchase]

Encrusting monti of some sort most likely, needs to color up though

 

[Sour137]

Looks like a meteor shower

Looking at pictures of meteor shower corals on google, it looks very similar, except in all the pictures I saw the there was some distance between polyps. The density of this one is what is throwing me off.

 

[Sour137]

Encrusting monti of some sort most likely, needs to color up though

I can see this as well.

 

[Off The Deep End]

Alveopora

 

[Sour137]

So it seems like this could be a fair variety of things.

 

[Off The Deep End]

A better picture might help, to me it definitely looks like like Alveopora/Flowerpot coral that has no color.

 

[Sour137]

A better picture might help, to me it definitely looks like like Alveopora/Flowerpot coral that has no color.

It doesn't seem to have the tubes coming off the rock. It seems to encrust the rock with the polyps directly attached to the rock. I might be able to do some better pictures next week. For now I'm restricted to the camera on the phone.

 

[Sour137]

With polyps retracted. It looks to be encrusting the liverock that its on

This is about as edge on as I can do. Notice the piece of liverock where the coral has not grown onto yet. They are very close to the surface.