ID please

[Young Frankenstein]

Have no clue if this is SPS or a sponge, it came with a rock as a hitchhiker :) grows fast.

 

[wysiwyg]

it might be a sponge but doesnt look like any sponges i have ever seen. thinking it is some sort of sps

 

[Young Frankenstein]

it might be a sponge but doesnt look like any sponges i have ever seen. thinking it is some sort of sps

I just had a brain storm "f..t" i checked if its hard or soft, super hard so its definitely SPS, now what SPS is it ???

 

[ritter6788]

Skeleton and color look like Heliopora (actually classified as a softy but has a skeleton) but the polyps look odd so I'm not sure.

 

[Young Frankenstein]

Skeleton and color look like Heliopora (actually classified as a softy but has a skeleton) but the polyps look odd so I'm not sure.

its hard as it can be !, yes the polyps are just single strings, weird.

 

[Young Frankenstein]

boom

 

[Henry C]

It's fire coral. Be careful not to touch it. bing it or google it.

 

[Young Frankenstein]

It's fire coral. Be careful not to touch it. bing it or google it.

Thanks henry, it does look like it. But i am noy so shue. Here is what I found and i did touch it, nothing yet LOL.

ARKive - Fire corals videos, photos and facts - Millepora spp.

Fire coral - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

 

[Young Frankenstein]

Basically a encrusting milleopora.

 

[Young Frankenstein]

So keepit or kill it ?

 

[Chameleon]

looks like blue ridge to me...just not blue

 

[Chameleon]

https://www.google.com/search?rlz=1C1CHFX_enUS486US488&sugexp=chrome,mod%3D3&q=blue+ridge+coral&um=1&ie=UTF-8&hl=en&tbm=isch&source=og&sa=N&tab=wi&ei=POT6T8btFIKQ8wTVo8SIBw&biw=1280&bih=920&sei=PuT6T-eDJ5Cs8QSD9tDeBg

 

[Chameleon]

btw if it is...that is a protected species now and can no longer be collected in the wild...so great find! I've always wanted some. My LFS has a big colony in there display, but hasn't been willing to frag me a piece yet.

 

[Young Frankenstein]

I think i will let it grow some more and see

 

[Young Frankenstein]

Thank you friends, anyone else ?

 

[Pkunk35]

btw if it is...that is a protected species now and can no longer be collected in the wild...so great find! I've always wanted some. My LFS has a big colony in there display, but hasn't been willing to frag me a piece yet.

Keep it. Frag it. Name it. Sell to reefheads. :)

Pretty dope! I've never seen! Very strange, those "whiskers"...

 

[cvysochin]

+1 to blue ridge.. I have it and it does have those "whiskers" just like your pic. Maybe put it higher to see if it turns blue/purple..

 

[Young Frankenstein]

Keep it. Frag it. Name it. Sell to reefheads. :)

Pretty dope! I've never seen! Very strange, those "whiskers"...

Yesssssssssss Yesssssssssss !!!!!!! "Young Frankenstein collection series, (Monster of the woods SPS) $ 1,500.00 for a 1/8" frag, dead or alive :)

 

[gmoney243]

I was thinking blue ridge also

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[Chameleon]

if you break it the inside will be blue if its blue ridge. try snipping a bit off