Coral ID Please

[Reefer5640]

So I bought this from a friend and he told me it was a pagoda cup and that’s what I thought it was this whole time until a guy came over to buy some zoa frags from he and he said it was a Hollywood stunner chalice... so the next person that came over for frags I asked them what they thought it was and they told me it was turbinaria. I looked up pictures of all three and I can find pictures that resemble similarities, turbinaria is what I’m leaning towards. The chalice has similar polyps but growth pattern no, pagoda has the growth pattern but the polyps are much larger than this. Any help would be appreciated.

 

[Tahoe61]

Turbinaria would be my guess as well. An image with white light and less blue will help though.

 

[Jason mack]

I would also say a turbinaria !! Or cup coral as some call them

 

[DSC reef]

That's a tough one. It has a strong resemblance to echinopora chalice.

 

[Sglinias1]

Looks just like my Hollywood stunner chalice

 

[Reefer5640]

Looks just like my Hollywood stunner chalice

Does your Hollywood stunner grow in a cup formation like this? Because I agree the texture, color, and polyp size bare quite a resemblance.

Tahoe61- Here is a pic under full spectrum.

 

[Tahoe61]

That does look more like a Hollywood Stunner in that image, nice piece.

 

[Reefer5640]

One other characteristic I will point out is that it has these long sweepers with little white balls on the ends of them. They can stretch up to 6” easy. It killed a good chunk of my hammer. I found pictures of the chalice that resemble these but couldn’t find any sweeper pics of the turbinaria.

 

[DSC reef]

Chalices will definitely throw out some sweepers. You have a large colony so large sweepers are pretty common.

 

[Reefer5640]

That's a tough one. It has a strong resemblance to echinopora chalice.

After looking up echinopora chalice and seeing pics of the random growth patterns and seeing pics of the sweepers... I’m now leaning pretty heavily towards this. Thanks for all the help.

 

[Sglinias1]

Does your Hollywood stunner grow in a cup formation like this? Because I agree the texture, color, and polyp size bare quite a resemblance.

Tahoe61- Here is a pic under full spectrum.

Yes, it grows exactly like that.

i knoe this is not the best picture but its after a bunch of cuttings too

 

[Tahoe61]

Yuppers to Chalice, Hollywood Stunner (Echinophyllia) I believe.