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Its pretty cool looking, whatever it is. To me looks like a plate coral of sorts!

I'll get some pix under the blues, it is an almighty green popping coral, and there are now 2 more small ones growing..

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Oddly, this Has fallen off the rock a week ago. It's still happy and feeding, but now on the sand bed. It's about an inch in diameter now, started out 5 months ago around 2mm.. Now in the base of where it originally sat on the rock (.as pictured in my original post) a new one seems to be growing..

It looks very good and has an awesome green colour, but still non the wiser as to what it is...

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I never seen anything quite like it either. Does it have a stalk, and does it have a discernible ring of tentacles, and though the answer is probably no, does it have a skeleton?

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2 things...

 

1) I think we need a new picture - try to get a high quality one.

 

2) I think you might want to change your avatar. It looks too similar to Kisara the Reefer's .... And he/she's likely a massive troll, or 10 yrs old.

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I never seen anything quite like it either. Does it have a stalk, and does it have a discernible ring of tentacles, and though the answer is probably no, does it have a skeleton?

Mill get a new picture today. Yes it seems to be a solid disc I picked it up to move when cleaning the sand and it felt like a coin.

 

A very short stalk, I guess only to ho,d it to the rock.. This never re generated after it dislodged from the rock

 

Tentacles seem to be inset from the outer ring of colour, and the mouth has the most colour going to a lemon yellow in the centre

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Do you think it could be some type of sponge? At the top of the I'd section they have a pic of a sponge that looks just like that.

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Do you think it could be some type of sponge? At the top of the I'd section they have a pic of a sponge that looks just like that.

I don't think so, it visibly eats and curled up almost like a mushroom, I will get a better pic as soon as I get back home

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I'm certain it's a coral in the Fungiidae family, possibly heliofungia actiniformis. It's just a very immature specimen, that's why it looks so much like an anemone.

Its pretty cool looking, whatever it is. To me looks like a plate coral of sorts!

maybe a small plate coral??

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could it be a squished torch? The body was growing under something and it formed itself flat? Or maybe an acan with a lot of feeder tentacles out.

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I'm certain it's a coral in the Fungiidae family, possibly heliofungia actiniformis. It's just a very immature specimen, that's why it looks so much like an anemone.

I think it might well be...

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Sounds like a plate to me, I had a little stalk off the back of a trachy that was the same, little green-ish plate, pops off eventually and a new one gets going. It's puffed up in my pics obviously but very very small skeleton with a little bump on the bottom.

 

off the stem
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on stem

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not sure this is any better a picture... damn camera phones


I never seen anything quite like it either. Does it have a stalk, and does it have a discernible ring of tentacles, and though the answer is probably no, does it have a skeleton?

new pic uploaded

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Agreed, that is definitely a plate coral...

 

Has anyone seen any research as to how heliofungia porites develop? Do they have a "mother" colony that just keeps spitting out little Fungias, or is it a one and done scenero. [Wanders off to do research]

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New pic is very obviously a plate...

Which species?

Agreed, that is definitely a plate coral...

Has anyone seen any research as to how heliofungia porites develop? Do they have a "mother" colony that just keeps spitting out little Fungias, or is it a one and done scenero. [Wanders off to do research]

Not sure but the stem it once sat on now has a tiny new growth

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