Help identifying coral

[nickfs000]

Hello,

A buddy of mine gave me this coral but I don’t think it’s a blasto like he said. Can someone help me to identify this?

 

[Hubert J. Farnsworth]

check it against Blastomussa vivida

 

[scotty333]

Can he be my buddy aswel that’s stunning

 

[nickfs000]

Can he be my buddy aswel that’s stunning

Definitely a good dude. He gave me other corals that I’ve identified already :)

 

[scotty333]

Definitely a good dude. He gave me other corals that I’ve identified already :)

Let’s see you lucky sod
Wish I had mates

 

[VintageReefer]

I don’t have friends like that lol

Nice piece!

 

[nickfs000]

Here’s a Juggernaut Bounce Mushroom?

- small neon green tip toadstool leather
- cinder zoanthid
- small cornbread radioactive bounce mushroom
I need better pix of these last three.

 

[thamnasteroid]

check it against Blastomussa vivida

This coloration is more common in wellsii.

 

[Hubert J. Farnsworth]

i didn't look too closely at colors, but i'd go with morphology any day over color for species specific id. its a very fair point though, considering available imports are finite.

but for my efforts, i didn't even look to0 closely at vivida morphology either lol. i just recalled seeing different morphology among blastos, in particular vivida looking pretty different compared to merletti and wellsii so i googled vivida and thought the OP should take a look at that to consider it could very well be a blasto.

 

[thamnasteroid]

i didn't look too closely at colors, but i'd go with morphology any day over color for species specific id. its a very fair point though, considering available imports are finite.

but for my efforts, i didn't even look to0 closely at vivida morphology either lol. i just recalled seeing different morphology among blastos, in particular vivida looking pretty different compared to merletti and wellsii so i googled vivida and thought the OP should take a look at that to consider it could very well be a blasto.

Color and patterning can also be an important factor for coral identification. Purple acrospheres are common in Heliofungia fralinae but rare in all other Fungiid species, and the purple-and-green coloration is found more in Fimbriaphyllia than in Euphyllia.
Morphology-wise, vivida is cerioid and is either solitary or forms small colonies, while wellsi is phaceloid and has smaller corallites than vivida.

 

[tbrown]

I don’t have friends like that lol

Nice piece!

Have you seen your tank? I'm pretty sure you're supposed to be the friend, not have friends like that. :face-with-tears-of-joy:

 

[VintageReefer]

Have you seen your tank? I'm pretty sure you're supposed to be the friend, not have friends like that. :face-with-tears-of-joy:

I’m overstocked. I literally have frags and things I’d give away