Coral identification

[bigbugoutfitters]

Got this as a free frag a couple months ago. My guess was that this was chalice? Not totally sure. It lost a bit of flesh the first week or two but then bounced back. Since then it has been fine until the last week or so when it began losing color and has become a bit pail. What exactly is this. Running noops at 40% 12 inches off the water. I will try to get parameters for you this evening when my wife gets home. I am colorblind and testing water is tricky other than phosphate(Hanna).

 

[liddojunior]

The blue lights make it hard to see

Does it have skeleton walls between the mouths? At first glance I thought goniastrea

 

[Reefkeepers Archive]

Bleaching is often due to a sudden temperature spike/high temp or a sudden spike in parameters/unsuitable parameters. High light can also have that effect, as well as high PH. What's the PAR at? What about general parameters? Any spikes in parameters/temp recently?

 

[Doctorgori]

Edited: 1st guess wrong

 

[bigbugoutfitters]

Unfortunately I am not sure on par, I live around 200 miles from the nearest reef shop. I have been thinking about renting one though. I began adding kalkwasser a couple weeks ago. Perhaps that could be it. My sps and scans have been loving it, but maybe just not this guy.

 

[bigbugoutfitters]

The blue lights make it hard to see

Does it have skeleton walls between the mouths? At first glance I thought goniastrea

That was my first thought but there isn’t much for skeletal definition. It’s sorta smooth skinned.

 

[liddojunior]

That was my first thought but there isn’t much for skeletal definition. It’s sorta smooth skinned.

Probably a type of chalice, there’s so many species under the chalice name

 

[GlassMunky]

Unfortunately I am not sure on par, I live around 200 miles from the nearest reef shop. I have been thinking about renting one though. I began adding kalkwasser a couple weeks ago. Perhaps that could be it. My sps and scans have been loving it, but maybe just not this guy.

Download the Photone app for your phone it’s like $15

 

[GlassMunky]

Looks like a favites to me.

Dow it kind of look like any of these here?

Favia and Favites Corals for Sale - Tidal Gardens

When it comes to diversity, it is hard to think of a more visually diverse group of corals than Favia and Favites. These brain corals develop multiple growth forms and come in just about every color and pattern imaginable. Some Favia are slow growing while others double in size quickly...

tidalgardens.com

 

[bigbugoutfitters]

Looks like a favites to me.

Dow it kind of look like any of these here?

Favia and Favites Corals for Sale - Tidal Gardens

When it comes to diversity, it is hard to think of a more visually diverse group of corals than Favia and Favites. These brain corals develop multiple growth forms and come in just about every color and pattern imaginable. Some Favia are slow growing while others double in size quickly...

tidalgardens.com

It sorta looks like a cross between https://tidalgardens.com/stock-raja-rampage-chalice.html
And

Fire Drake Favia

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tidalgardens.com

I still am leaning towards chalice. I’ll try to get a better picture when I get home.
My favias are doing super well now, if it is a favite would it likely do better under similar conditions as the favias?

 

[MoshJosh]

Moseleya latistellata

 

[bigbugoutfitters]

Moseleya latistellata

I think you are right. Looks like I might need to move it down to my mushroom cave. Some of the photos I saw online look like it when I first bought it. Bought it at petco for 15 dollars, the person that sold it to me thought it was a Monti… haha. Not quite. Sounds like they are especially sensitive to chemistry changes. Hopefully it’ll make it.
I am a little worried, gonna be leaving the tank to my wife for the next six weeks. Gotta drive down to central Montana til mid late June for the start of the guide season. Sleeping in the back of the truck the whole time. Wish my back well and the tank good health!

 

[encrustingacro]

Merulinidae sp.; likely a Dipsastraea or Favites deformed by captivity

 

[bigbugoutfitters]

.18 phosphate
9.3 alk
13 nitrate
8.3 ph
1425 mg
450 calc
1.026
78 Fahrenheit

Looks like magnesium and calcium are high. I may dose less kalkwasser but I’m not sure why I’ve got elevated magnesium.

 

[bigbugoutfitters]

Moved it a bit lower under whites and blues. Also a more shaded area. I’ll keep an eye on I for the next week.

 

[GlassMunky]

seeing it in white def makes me think favites even more now

 

[VintageReefer]

My guess was a favia

 

[encrustingacro]

Not Favia; Favia don't exist in the hobby