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SATELLITE
07-20-2010, 07:01 PM
need help tring to figure out what this is. thanks


http://i9.photobucket.com/albums/a77/sonya24/Picture1077.jpg
http://i9.photobucket.com/albums/a77/sonya24/Picture1068.jpg
http://i9.photobucket.com/albums/a77/sonya24/Picture1070.jpg

Zoaelite
07-20-2010, 07:08 PM
That's a tough one, have any night photos? I would say its a galaxea fascicularis.

Here is a similar one http://directsealife.com/shop/images/Galaxea%20fascicularis.jpg

josie
07-20-2010, 07:10 PM
pavona
it's very agressive, dont put it near other coral

nlreefguy
07-20-2010, 07:12 PM
It looks like a type of hydnophora to me...

delo978
07-20-2010, 07:23 PM
I think it looks more like a green flowerpot myself

http://www.bluezooaquatics.com/images/products/Corals/large/Flower_Pot_Red_ps.jpg

there's a green one at my LFS

reefwars
07-20-2010, 08:04 PM
Gonna second the goniopora(flowerpot) I have a Large green one it looks like tahr when disturbed, they don't gave a reputation of living past the firstyeR something like less than 10% make it???

reeferious
07-20-2010, 10:50 PM
kick my ass if i'm wrong but it's an unhappy looking galaxia.

Myka
07-20-2010, 11:13 PM
Please take a photo when the tissue is retracted so we can see the skeleton. I am almost 100% sure it is not Galaxea nor Goniopora, but I need to see the skeleton to ID for sure.

Buzz
07-20-2010, 11:29 PM
http://i598.photobucket.com/albums/tt61/canareef/IMGP0925-1.jpg
http://i598.photobucket.com/albums/tt61/canareef/IMGP0547.jpg
This is a happy galaxea.
http://i598.photobucket.com/albums/tt61/canareef/P7200159.jpg
This is kind of ****ed off.
The skeleton looks totally different than yours.

Myka
07-20-2010, 11:55 PM
The photos that SATELLITE posted show a coral with "mouths" in between the "clusters" of tissue. Neither Galaxea nor Goniopora have this trait.

Wayne
07-21-2010, 12:00 AM
I'm pretty sure that its not a Gonipora, the heads are all wrong.

delo978
07-21-2010, 12:02 AM
i still say flowerpot

Wayne
07-21-2010, 12:14 AM
Heres some Gonipora Pictures I just took. I gave him a little massage to get him closer to his skeleton :wink: Bottom right is right down to skeleton.

http://i774.photobucket.com/albums/yy22/Racing_Rush/IMG_2362.jpg

Here is him fully extended:

http://i774.photobucket.com/albums/yy22/Racing_Rush/IMG_2208.jpg

whatcaneyedo
07-21-2010, 01:00 AM
Hydnophora microconos maybe? http://reefcentral.com/forums/showthread.php?t=900409&highlight=hydnophora+microconos http://reefcentral.com/forums/showthread.php?t=1081604&highlight=hydnophora+microconos

nlreefguy
07-21-2010, 01:59 AM
I still say it's a hydnophora, those tissue bumps look too much like hydnophores to be anything else really.

SATELLITE
07-21-2010, 04:18 AM
i have a gonipora and a pagoda coral. its not either one.

i think i seen it. encrusting horn coral??? hydnophora.

http://www.bluezooaquatics.com/productDetail.asp?cid=52&pid=1432&did=3