Encrusting coral ID

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Hi everyone, bought this encrusting sps, looks maybe like a leptastrea of some kind but I don’t see any kind of big polyps, maybe it’s closed but not too sure, any help with an ID would be great

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Looks like lephastrea coral
 
Not leptastrea at all. Prob Pavona maldivensis.
Yeah didn’t think so polyps weren’t big or ‘out’ enough agree with pavona though, thanks for the Id :)
 
Isn’t that a pavona? I could be wrong.
Now that I can view on a screen larger than a phone screen, This is indeed Pavona cup and is an SPS that can be fairly hardy. Its also called cactus coral
 

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