Chalice

[pm_devin]

Does this guy look alright? I have had it for a month.

 

[tbrown]

It has healthy looking flesh. Puffy, not faded, etc. No skeleton showing is a good thing as well.

 

[thamnasteroid]

a little off-topic but are you sure that's a chalice? I can't make out any corallites

 

[i cant think]

a little off-topic but are you sure that's a chalice? I can't make out any corallites

It’s definitely a chalice - some species don’t have the clearest of corallites. I have a “bounce” Chalice that unless you felt its skeleton, you wouldnt be able to see many of its corallites.

 

[DSC reef]

I agree, Definitely a chalice and looks great to me. I like the placement and color its producing. It should grow pretty nice in that space, well done.

 

[Gumbies R Us]

Chalice looks good to me!

 

[thamnasteroid]

a little off-topic but are you sure that's a chalice? I can't make out any corallites

It’s definitely a chalice - some species don’t have the clearest of corallites. I have a “bounce” Chalice that unless you felt its skeleton, you wouldnt be able to see many of its corallites.

Could you possibly take a closer, clearer pic? I would like to see what genus this chalice is.

 

[pm_devin]

Could you possibly take a closer, clearer pic? I would like to see what genus this chalice is.

This is the best I could do, unless you have some tips for iphone 14

 

[tbrown]

This is the best I could do, unless you have some tips for iphone 14

Put it in a bag that won't leak and you can get closer?

 

[thamnasteroid]

Could you possibly take a closer, clearer pic? I would like to see what genus this chalice is.

This is the best I could do, unless you have some tips for iphone 14

place the coral on the sandbed as near to the glass as possible, don't zoom in (as phones don't have optical zoom) but place your phone as near to the glass as needed, and take the photo under whites.

 

[thamnasteroid]

a little off-topic but are you sure that's a chalice? I can't make out any corallites

It’s definitely a chalice - some species don’t have the clearest of corallites. I have a “bounce” Chalice that unless you felt its skeleton, you wouldnt be able to see many of its corallites.

In the bounce chalice you're talking about, it's because the flesh on the septal teeth inflate which obscures the corallites. However, I can't make out any septal dentations or coenosteal spinules on this chalice, or anything that would obscure the corallites. The coenosteum of this coral looks smooth, while most chalices have coenostea decorated with dentations or spinules. The corallites of this coral may be too small to make out from these photos, which is not typical of chalices (corallites range from pentagona-sized to Dipsastraea-sized in chalices). I'm usually able to ID chalice genera, and even I can't make out what genus this is from these photos, which is why I'm thinking it's possibly not a chalice.