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Can you help with identifying the colony below? I am not sure it's an lps. Plug is about 1 inch diameter, for scale purposes.

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I was thinking favia, the heads are about 1/8 inch each, pretty tiny. I will post an enlarged image, maybe it will help.
 
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Now here's where I'm puzzled: heads are really small, nothing compares to anything I know or have seen regarding favia/favites. Also, the shape of the polyps resemble the image found here. I say "resemble", they are not exactly the same, but they seem to look fairly close to what that image shows.

The first image in the thread was taken when the polyps were closed, as I just moved the frag.
 

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Now here's where I'm puzzled: heads are really small, nothing compares to anything I know or have seen regarding favia/favites. Also, the shape of the polyps resemble the image found here. I say "resemble", they are not exactly the same, but they seem to look fairly close to what that image shows.

The first image in the thread was taken when the polyps were closed, as I just moved the frag.
Thats why I thought possible leptastrea was the polyp shape. But they're usually tighter than that one.
 

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Most likely Leptastrea, here are some of mine for reference. Their polyps are pretty small, roughly 1-2cm (0.4-0.78 inch) each.
 

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