I want him to be my buddy, bit can he be my buddy?

[Hairyteeth]

Hey everybody,
I got this little guy on the side of my first set of frags, at first he was a dead looking bump. We called it the zombie zoa. It is infamous in our house. I've scraped him, poked it and generally abused it thinking it was some intruder. Feels like it has a hard skeleton, and retracts also if bothered...well 7 months later I leave it alone and as the tank matures and really starts growing this little dude is now 4 times the size and looking pretty cool. Any one know what it is?

 

[GK3]

Hey everybody,
I got this little guy on the side of my first set of frags, at first he was a dead looking bump. We called it the zombie zoa. It is infamous in our house. I've scraped him, poked it and generally abused it thinking it was some intruder. Feels like it has a hard skeleton, and retracts also if bothered...well 7 months later I leave it alone and as the tank matures and really starts growing this little dude is now 4 times the size and looking pretty cool. Any one know what it is?

Do you have pics under whites?

 

[Reefer5640]

It looks cool but I can’t tell what it is. I don’t think it’s a pest anemone but it’s hard to tell in the pic. Can you take a pic with the whites on

 

[peteyspizza]

Looks like a plate coral to me! Love those things (if it is one). That's actually how I got my first plate- on the side of a big lobo. 2 Years later and I have tons of the little babies and after fragging the mother down to about an inch and a half across it is now 3 or 4 inches across. Started out about the same size as yours

 

[andrewey]

So, I have no real certain guess here. But my first instinct was a type of LPS like a fungia. My money is that it can be your buddy.

 

[Hairyteeth]

Do you have pics under whites?

One sec

 

[Reefer5640]

I could see it being a fungia... or possibly a galaxia polyp, a little big though for that...

 

[Mike N]

+1 plate coral

 

[vetteguy53081]

Cerrisa Plate coral

 

[Hairyteeth]

Here's a pic of him under 100 percent whites, 2 kessil 160s, mid tank in an evo 13.5

 

[Hairyteeth]

Plate coral is what we were thinking as well, but didn't want to get to excited.

 

[andrewey]

Congratulations on your new friend!

 

[Hairyteeth]

Who hooooo!

 

[itselenababe]

This actually looks really similar! Same beak like green mouth

 

[Hairyteeth]

Here’s an update, the big one is “half” of the original. It is one of six plates left from the og,t that I have. 4 have been given away as well!!

 

[exnisstech]

This is too cool. Best hitch hiker I've ever gotten was a brittle star. I had a couple of plates that died but never got any babies

 

[BrotatoSalad]

What an awesome hitchhiker to end up with! Glad it's doing well in your tank.