What sps?

[Osmium]

I bought this from my lfs and the guy told me it was a stylophora, but it doesn't really look like that to me, it doesn't have that "hairy" appearance. The polyps don't extend past the skeleton. Is it some kind of porites maybe?

[Parapodia]

Perhaps he meant stylocoeniella...not quite happy enough for full PE?

 

https://reefbuilders.com/2019/03/20/stylocoeniella-great-aquarium-coral/

 

https://www.reef2reef.com/threads/coral-spotlight-stylocoeniella.519821/

[Murphs_Reef]

Actually looks kinda like a closed up Goni 

[Staticmoves]

Hmmmm...........

stylocoeniella

 

have you seem it extend polyps yet?

 

 

This may be the winner.

 

[Osmium]

It's been in my tank for a month and I've never seen the polyps extend past the skeleton, nor were they extended at my lfs. The tentacles I can see are very very tiny and clear and they barely extend past the skeleton. The polyps almost looks like cyphastrea, but spaced much closer together and it's not an encrusting type

 

I suppose it's possible I've just never seen a full extension, but at this point I don't think that's it

[Osmium]

Here's couple more pictures. It's hard to see in my tank, but the coral is almost an inch tall as well. It's not a flat encrusting type, but has built up a large skeleton

[Osmium]

[Staticmoves]

Is that chalice throwing any sweepers at night?

the last photo I posted shows an irritated portion of the coral.

cool looking chunk of coral what ever it is.

[Osmium]

1 hour ago, Staticmoves said:

Is that chalice throwing any sweepers at night?

the last photo I posted shows an irritated portion of the coral.

cool looking chunk of coral what ever it is.

I haven't noticed, I'll keep an eye out for that. What part looks irritated to you?

 

And yeah thanks, it's super cool! I don't think I've seen a coral quite like it before

[Staticmoves]

9 hours ago, Osmium said:

What part looks irritated to you?

just a possibility "if" there are extendable polyps. 

not sure what kind of chalice that is, but "some" toss out 10-12" long sweepers at night.  though usually you would notice tissue damage on the encroached coral.

[Osmium]

9 hours ago, Staticmoves said:

just a possibility "if" there are extendable polyps. 

not sure what kind of chalice that is, but "some" toss out 10-12" long sweepers at night.  though usually you would notice tissue damage on the encroached coral.

Gotcha. It's a space invader chalice if you wanted to know, and there's some Xenia growing close enough to touch it so I don't think it's being aggressive. I'll definitely keep an eye out for that in the future though 

[TheCoffeeReef]

On 9/11/2024 at 9:23 PM, Osmium said:

Gotcha. It's a space invader chalice if you wanted to know, and there's some Xenia growing close enough to touch it so I don't think it's being aggressive. I'll definitely keep an eye out for that in the future though 

Word of observed caution on xenia, its capable of fighting, witnessed it burn my Kenya tree stem, chemical exudate I'm sure was the mechanism when in direct contact for space.

[Osmium]

21 hours ago, TheCoffeeReef said:

Word of observed caution on xenia, its capable of fighting, witnessed it burn my Kenya tree stem, chemical exudate I'm sure was the mechanism when in direct contact for space.

Oh wow, okay I'll keep an even closer eye on it then. I had no idea! 

[TheCoffeeReef]

3 hours ago, Osmium said:

Oh wow, okay I'll keep an even closer eye on it then. I had no idea! 

Neither did I, its still overall low aggression, but it's not harmless to other corals either.

 

Worth mentioning to schedule any pruning you'll end up doing around a water change, they will dump some of their fluids which contain toxins. Easily remedied. still a favorite coral.

[Staticmoves]

Hey

Look up "Astreopora"