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Stony coral ID?


PieMan2k

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The pic makes it a bit hard to tell but it looks like either a Duncan or a clove polyp. The cove is a softie and the Duncan is an Lps. Both are pretty easy. Just make sure you have good moderate lighting and moderate flow. Duncan's in my experience do much better if fed mysis shrimp once or so a week. Other wise they are very simple!

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It's neither of those. It is like a stone shell but the polyps don't come out of the base more than that. I don't currently have another picture and won't get another one for 2 weeks because I'm at my moms house. But it's like a stone with little polyps that come out about that far and if it's close to the sand it will send tenticles out and sift the sand. They aren't sweeper tenticles because it doesn't sting the corals near it.

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Maybe an alveopora that is not fully extended? How long have you had it? Does it always look like that, or does it retract more at night?

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It's not that either. I will ask my dad if he can get a nice shot with it from the camera and not a phone pic. It does look like galexa but with the little spikes cut off when it's retracted

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Galaxea astreata after some research it's one of these but in a rounded shape

They shape to what ever the skeleton grows over.

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