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Thanks in advance to anyone who can lend a hand here. I've searched, and searched, and searched, and asked the store, and searched, and I still can't definitively ID these corals.
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And I know this next one is a goni (in the foreground), but which kind?
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Thank you for the education!
 

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1st looks like a Leptastrea (looks sorta like an ice blue, but yours has a cooler/different color pattern). And I am unsure on the type of Goni (there are a LOT of different types)
 
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1st looks like a Leptastrea (looks sorta like an ice blue, but yours has a cooler/different color pattern). And I am unsure on the type of Goni (there are a LOT of different types)
Thank you, but I'm not sure that's the one. The lighter portions are sort of a grey-ice blue. It fluoresces moderately under blue LEDs, but not super bright. It has a slightly fuzzy appearance to it. Almost like velvet. I have another I believe is either a lepta or a favia (the one in the background of the goni picture) and the mystery coral doesn't really show much of a 3 dimensional structure. It's very flat as it crusts onto the plug.

As for the goni, I have it mounted somewhat below another species of goni with much longer tentacle extension. I'm banking on similar species playing nice with each other as they grow.
 

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Yeah it is hard to capture the color on photos. Pretty coral though! The only encrusting stony coral I have is a war coral, but these look really cool.
Gonis should play nice with one another. I think as long as it is not an Alveopora and Goni.
Sometimes conditions in the tank/lighting and flow will affect how long it extends too.
 

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