Coral ID please?

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Thank you for the help :) got for $20
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Hard to tell , looks like it could be blastos or Duncan's
Most likely blastos due to the lack of branching patterns
 

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That also could be a bleached out sun coral. In which case, it needs a spot with no to very little light and regular hand feeding...
 
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Agreeing on a bleached tubastrea. Little light in shade and lots of reef roids. I fed it reef roids already. Densely, on the polyps.


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It was credit so I didn't care too much. Also, I like a white coral lol. Also, their store is pretty bad sometimes. Flatworms, ich, pests. Terrible
 
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Here's a photo of it more closed up. My vote is on sun coral tubastrea. Looks like it's missing a lot of flesh and it's bleached but if it grows I'm happy. Idk much about coral but this one was more of an experimental coral anyway
 

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Definitely an unhappy sun coral. Get it in some shade and make sure to spot feed regularly and it should recover just fine!
 

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I just wonder how Tubastrea can bleach since it doesn´t harbor zooxanthellae. Usually coral bleaching is the loss of zooxanthellae. I also wonder about the greenish ring around the mouth opening.
 
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I just wonder how Tubastrea can bleach since it doesn´t harbor zooxanthellae. Usually coral bleaching is the loss of zooxanthellae. I also wonder about the greenish ring around the mouth opening.
Here is a photo of it all the way open. I was wondering the same thing about the bleaching without zooxan and the green opening. It's not super green but it is for sure a green or yellow tint. Perhaps residual from the old colors. The white t5 is pretty much fully blocked and it gets some of the blue but is in a lot of shade. I'm feeding it a lot. Reef roids, frozen foods. Should I make a point to feed the polyps at the bottom? They're not positioned very well, nor open up a lot
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For me it looks like there are some remains of zooxanthellae or zooxanthellae coming back in the lower polyps. This means Duncanopsammia. Opened up it looks pretty much like a compact bleached Duncanopsammia.
 

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