Coral found in your tank you forgot about

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So I moved a rock to get anemones off of it and underneath there was 8 lava lamp mushrooms. I can't even remember buying them. Hard to see cuz I can't lift rock up but those are the babies and there is a mother one thats baseball sized on the back. Pretty excited to see what happens
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I had montimpora come back after I lost it all to alk spike three years later. Crazy. I have found cabbage leather out of no where (it can literally survive a bomb, I think).
I also found a tiny little green polyped long tentacle toadstool I thought I lost a long time back. Put it on the rock and a few weeks later, it blew away again. If I find it again, I will mount it better. :)
Fun to get surprises every now and then. Good ones, that is.
 

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Now that you mention it. I found this in the sand bed the other day, I can't remember ever buying it. Can you name it for me? Thank you for thinking of this, great idea.
 

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Now that you mention it. I found this in the sand bed the other day, I can't remember ever buying it. Can you name it for me? Thank you for thinking of this, great idea.
With how white they are I'm at a loss!! Maybe after they color up a bit we can get some peeps to try?
 

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With how white they are I'm at a loss!! Maybe after they color up a bit we can get some peeps to try?
It is funny though, my water chemistry is not perfect and I find this gem in the sand, thought it was just an old dead piece. I can't keep Duncans happy but I have this clam for going on 2 years now, squamy I believe.
 

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Need more info. Fleshy like a soft coral or hard skeleton underneath.
It looked like a white rock covered with pores, I thought it was a dead coral so I just left it on the sand bed. When I seen the polyps after a few days I mounted it on a rock. looks like a flower pot coral that I remember getting several years ago but thought it died and haven't seen it again until a few days ago buried in the sand. So surprised. So it has a hard skeleton like a solid rock and flower pot like polyps, maybe goniopora. Or alveopora.
 

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Now that you mention it. I found this in the sand bed the other day, I can't remember ever buying it. Can you name it for me? Thank you for thinking of this, great idea.
Looks like a short polyp goniopora . bleach red or pink.
 

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Looks like a short polyp goniopora . bleach red or pink.
Thanks, that is what I was thinking. I remember several years ago getting what the LFS said was a flower pot coral, I didn't know at the time the real names of corals. I now have a few gonis and alveaporas.
 

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It looked like a white rock covered with pores, I thought it was a dead coral so I just left it on the sand bed. When I seen the polyps after a few days I mounted it on a rock. looks like a flower pot coral that I remember getting several years ago but thought it died and haven't seen it again until a few days ago buried in the sand. So surprised. So it has a hard skeleton like a solid rock and flower pot like polyps, maybe goniopora. Or alveopora.
My first guess was alveopora.
 

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