Coral ID

[marie]

Anyone care to take a stab at Id'ing this coral? I'm not even sure where it came from, whether it was a hitchhiker or one of the many frags I've picked up over the years

It doesn't look like a montipora, porites maybe?

[Aquattro]

I'd believe you if you said porites...

[marie]

It's very aggressive, even my hairy mushrooms treat it with respect and they kill everything in their paths

[christyf5]

weird, porites are usually total wusses when it comes to coral warfare. It does kind of look like a porites though, or a psammacora

[chandigz]

heliopora Blue ridge? My buddy has some heliopora that started out like that on a piece of L/R. Does it have light blue/white growth tips and skinny clear brown polyps. His had a weird growth pattern like gummy worms standing upright when it started to branch, not the usual ridges.

[thegecko]

Why do all you ppl in BC have the nicest stuff

[marie]

It's definitely not a heliopora, and I'm not convinced it's a porites. Might be a psammacora but I'm unfamiliar with those and the pictures I've looked at aren't very clear

[nlreefguy]

Some kind of monti, perhaps? The third picture, on those raised bumps, it kind of looks like a M. danae. Just a guess, of course. Until I wrote this post and when I first saw the pics I was thinking "it's some kind of psammacora", but someone already suggested that!

[reeferious]

hey Marie i might be able to get an id for you. one of my nieces is currently researching her master thesis in marine biology at ubc. just send me a clipping collect and i'll get her to categorize it for you. let me know pls.