Coral ID

[TetoCCB]

Can anyone ID this coral?... - is it a coral?...

It is on a rock with yellow polyps and has a tubular shape with an opening in the end... It doesn't appear to change shape or position at all...

Thx...

 

[DSC reef]

Looks to be a palythoa

 

[TetoCCB]

Looks to be a palythoa

I've never seen it open - day or night... I can't tell if it's even a polyp or not...

 

[DSC reef]

Might be to shaded. I have a colony of palys with long stems and the bottoms don't open. New ones just keep growing.

 

[DSC reef]

Can you post a full pic. The others have a aptaisia look to them

 

[TetoCCB]

Can you post a full pic. The others have a aptaisia look to them

This is the portion I'm asking about: (if the copy and paste image shows)

The tentacles above it in the original image are those of the yellow polyps on the same rock. I do have a paly garden on the live rock on which this rock rests, but this is not one of those - their bases are much more translucent.

 

[DSC reef]

That's definitely a paly stalk. Just not opened.