Help with Coral ID

[Christopher Marshall]

Hi folks. I bought this frag at a local store because it looked unusual and i tbought it might be a fire coral (Millepora)...because i couldnt see any polyps...and it had a kind of silvery sheen to it ... but today i saw it with tiny polyps out...and now im wondering what it might be.

Anyone know of a coral like this?

Thanks in advance.

C

 

[Dkmoo]

some kind of leather. it's soft right? (or is there a bone underneath)?

 

[1guydude]

It is hard stony? It is a blue ridge coral. Very kool.
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[Christopher Marshall]

its hard...not soft...stony

 

[Christopher Marshall]

It is hard stony? It is a blue ridge coral. Very kool.
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i think you got it! thanks

 

[Christopher Marshall]

Heliopora - Wikipedia

en.wikipedia.org

 

[vetteguy53081]

Looks like my blue ridge

 

[Sallstrom]

It is an Octocoral = soft coral (have eight tentacles on each polyp), but has a hard skeleton of iron salts (therefor blue).