Coral id

[alliecat]

Bought this at the lfs I work at for $20. No one knows what it is and I've never seen anything like it so I had to get it. It's very fleshy like a mushroom with a stony base

 

[PaulKreider]

Looks like a chalice to me.

 

[alliecat]

It's really fleshy though it feels like a mushroom that's what's throwing me off

 

[PaulKreider]

Some chalices are fleshy, ushually means their healthy. Fat and puffy is good, if its got a hard skeletal structure than it cannot be a mushroom.

 

[alliecat]

I know that but it's not puffy it flares out like a mushroom

 

[NanaReefer]

Does it have a skeleton?

 

[alliecat]

The tissue is also retractile almost like when u touch a clam it completely goes into the skeleton

 

[alliecat]

Ad it fully retracts which is strange u can see the skeleton completely when it does and it doesn't look like chalice skeleton so im stumped

 

[alliecat]

No one knows?

 

[Titus]

How about a pic of the skeleton when it is retracted?

 

[alliecat]

Of course now it isn't retracted it's fully acclimated now I don't want to irritate it. It's like a bunch of straight lines if for some reason it closes up again I'll post it

 

[alliecat]

I believe it is a leptoseris

 

[Dylan J.]

We able to get a picture of it in the tank n out of the bag?