Encrusting Hitchhiker

[couevas]

Anyone know what this sps is called. Looks like there was more on the rock that died off in my LFS's rock tank.

 

 

 

[Degener8]

Some type of encrusting montipora i believe.

[Apoptosis]

That is my guess as well. Encrusting monti

[franklypre]

I think everyone is way off looks like a blue ridge to me, most def. Heliopora coerulea is the latin

[Degener8]

I would be inclined to agree except there is no effort to grow in any outward direction. The 2 corals surfaces are similar except the monti does not grow outward but your Heliopora coerulea certainly does.

 

Just my thoughts.

[Jacobnano]

Or porites maybe?

[couevas]

My LFS (where I got the rock) thought it was Blue Ridge as well. He showed me some skeleton of it from a rock that came from the same place.

 

The skeleton was definitely blue ridge, but I am not sold on this one yet......

[Hands_in_pockets]

Porites imho

[Zo0k365]

Lol, looks more like an encrusting sponge to me....

 

 

Edit: jk I just noticed polyps

[lakshwadeep]

From the number of tentacles, it looks like an octocoral, which means it's not related to SPS. However, Heliopora coerulea sounds closer because it is one of the few octocorals that encrust like SPS. The only problem with that is H. coerulea is generally blue.

[franklypre]

I'm telling you I just got rid of my last frag of it, grow slow in low light, grows slower in high light.

[Markushka]

I'd think its porites