Can anyone identify?

[JasonK84]

Got this little beauty acclimating. Not sure what it is. Encrusting something or another.
Thanks in advance.

 

[JasonK84]

Bump

 

[JasonK84]

Maybe more traffic today than yesterday.
Bump for an ID.

 

[old salt reefer]

It's hard to tell anything with no polyp extension. Get a picture when it opens up and post that.

 

[Graffiti Spot]

It’s harder to I’d coral with polyp extension actually. Looks like a purple monti to me but I am no good with Montipora species ids.

 

[old salt reefer]

It’s harder to I’d coral with polyp extension actually. Looks like a purple monti to me but I am no good with Montipora species ids.

Look at his thumb, now look at polyp "holes". Those are some might big "holes". Those holes don't say SPS(what a montipora is), they say LPS to me. If the polyps were out it would be easier to tell what it is exactly.

 

[Graffiti Spot]

Just looks like a purple undata type monti to me but like I said I am not good with these. Not good with lps either but looks a little small to be lps. I think the round plastics making it look bigger than it really is maybe?

 

[JasonK84]

Here is a photo with 20k orange filter and macro lens. Has a little polyp extension today but looks like there’s more to come.

 

[JasonK84]

It's hard to tell anything with no polyp extension. Get a picture when it opens up and post that.

How about now? Better pic with filters and some PE.

 

[F i s h y]

Its pretty. Alveopora maybe? I'm not sure.

 

[sixty_reefer]

How about now? Better pic with filters and some PE.

Smurf polyps ultra rare just give it a google :)

 

[JasonK84]

Smurf polyps ultra rare just give it a google :)

I did come across those in my search for “blue corals”. Looks very similar to that with the polyps out.
Just how rare would they be?

 

[sixty_reefer]

I did come across those in my search for “blue corals”. Looks very similar to that with the polyps out.
Just how rare would they be?

Let me see, besides your frag am not aware of another coral anywhere else kinda rare :)
You may be well the only person with this coral atm

It’s an octocoral, it may be challenging to care for it.

 

[CCauthers]

Not alveopora, could be porites or galaxea or gonipora. Alveopora have a structure almost like a mini euphyillyia

 

[JasonK84]

Let me see, besides your frag am not aware of another coral anywhere else kinda rare :)
You may be well the only person with this coral atm

It’s an octocoral, it may be challenging to care for it.

Found this thread. Maybe it just ends up being some kind of glove polyp?
https://www.reef2reef.com/threads/smurf-polyps.662774/page-2

 

[monti mike]

It looks a lot like an angry goniopora. Here’s mine in a dip and it looks pretty similar to yours. Zoom in and look towards the top middle under the 3 acro frags

 

[sixty_reefer]

Found this thread. Maybe it just ends up being some kind of glove polyp?
https://www.reef2reef.com/threads/smurf-polyps.662774/page-2

That’s my thread, even though the coral I found was very similar to it, the size wasn’t right, In the same frag as you got I had around 40 polyps. The one in the thread wasn’t the real deal if Julian Sprung was still on here he could tell the difference, as he named the first coral.

 

[JasonK84]

That’s my thread, even though the coral I found was very similar to it, the size wasn’t right, In the same frag as you got I had around 40 polyps. The one in the thread wasn’t the real deal if Julian Sprung was still on here he could tell the difference, as he named the first coral.

LFS didn’t know what it was. Picked it up for $18.99. Guess we will see as it settles in. If it settles in.

 

[Graffiti Spot]

I was way off haha, whatever it is is weird looking.

 

[monti mike]

A mystery coral can be fun! Let us know how it looks after it settles in!