Any Ideas?

[hig789]

Saw these today while I was getting some water. The guy at the store had no clue(shocker). They almost look like tiny zoas but it seems like they have a skeleton in the second picture.

Posted this here because I didn't know where else to post it. I don't believe they are zoas because the heads are tiny but they could be.

Thanks for any help you can offer. Sorry the pictures are terrible.

 

[Reefing Madness]

Looks like a Orange Galaxea

 

[Tab28]

Could it be s short tentacle goniopora?

 

[Tahoe61]

Goniopora stutchburyi or Leptastrea I can not quite make out the image. Unique corals has both for comparison.

 

[Chris Adams]

second Leptastrea

PS mine likes lower light(quick to show effects of to much light, medium to slow grower) and have it in low flow area.

 

[hig789]

Goniopora stutchburyi or Leptastrea I can not quite make out the image. Unique corals has both for comparison.

second Leptastrea

PS mine likes lower light(quick to show effects of to much light, medium to slow grower) and have it in low flow area.

Looks like a winner to me. Yes the pictures are crap. I was trying to wrangle a 2 year old while I was trying to take them. Haha.

 

[hig789]

I was hoping it would just keep growing in the ball shape and I could put it in the sand. But from what I have read they are encrusting so that probably wouldn't work too well.

 

[Tab28]

You are correct lepastrea is totally encrusting. Take the shape of whatever it is growing on. To be sure it is a lepastrea. Just us a turkey baster to get polyps to retract. Lepastrea will be just flat. Gonipora will have divot marks where polyps retract into

 

[Chris Adams]

Yes encrusting from my experience

 

[hig789]

Ah well. I guess I'll pass on it. Real estate is too precious in my nano to just buy stuff I might like.

 

[hig789]

Thanks for the help though everyone