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What kind of coral is this?


Kimberly63

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Kimberly63

My friend gave me a piece of this. It looks like xenia but it doesn't pulse and it's more of a stiff polyp that doesn't wave with the flow. Well it kinda waves but not a lot.

 

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This is my friend Steve's pic of his coral

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Looks like a small Purple Goniopora. I have one as well but it is a bit bigger. By any chance have you seen retract or extend farther out?

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Looks like a small Purple Goniopora. I have one as well but it is a bit bigger. By any chance have you seen retract or extend farther out?

not a goni for sure, not enough fingers on the end of the polyps.

 

its a type of xenia for sure... there are other types than pulsing by the way...

 

EDIT: this is a purple goni for reference

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Looks like anthelia thats acclimating to the tank it'll get bigger

 

+1...........That aint no goni!

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gulfsurfer101

Not a flowepot or goni as stated above, looks more like some type of exenia that isn't happy from the move yet. Give it time and it will come around and you'll be able to get a better ID on it.

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It has 8 tentacles at the end of each polyp, not 12 or 24 so it can't be an Alvopora or a Goniopora.

 

It looks like Cespitularia to me, or perhaps Anthelia. I'm leaning toward Cespitularia

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Some sort of Xenia. I actually have a colony of them that looks just like yours. I bet they will open up a bit more after they get used to the tank. Mine never pulse.

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I believe it's xenia. It lacks the branched appearance of the anthelia stalk ends. I have what may be the same xenia morph; it gets cranky and bunches up but starts pulsing away after a few hours.

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