Bonus coral or undesirable hitchhiker?

[hannahbee]

Picked up a little margarita snail with a tiiiiiny little LPS looking coral on its shell. Any guesses on what it is?? Sorry these are the best pictures I could get its only a couple centimeters wide! The third pic is it out of the water, polyps in, you can see its smol stony skeleton. Thank you!

 

[KJ]

Look like a Pocillopora @DSC reef

 

[DSC reef]

Look like a Pocillopora @DSC reef

Agreed

 

[samnaz]

+1 pocillopora. They commonly reproduce like that so I wouldn't be surprised.

 

[samnaz]

ps welcome to R2R! @hannahbee

 

[Coastie Reefer]

Glue over it now or it will eventually be everywhere

 

[hannahbee]

Glue over it now or it will eventually be everywhere

thank you but I'm not too worried its 3 gallon tank with four hermit crabs and some dry rock

 

[hannahbee]

ps welcome to R2R! @hannahbee

THANK YOU!!

 

[hannahbee]

Look like a Pocillopora @DSC reef

Thank you!

 

[reef lover]

#Welcometor2r !

 

[Lovemyreef2015]

Agree with pocillopora. Welcome to R2R

 

[saltyhog]

I will withhold whether it's a undesirable vs desirable hitch hiker coral until it colors up.

If it is the neon green variety, I agree with @Coastie Reefer. Kill it if it turns that color. I wouldn't be too cavalier about it either, believe me I know from experience. It's a really pretty coral but it was a pain in my neck for over a year. It spreads like wild fire and was very difficult to eradicate. It damaged several very valuable corals.