ID pretty please?

[1979fishgeek]

Hi,

Can anyone ID this it came in on some live rock I got from someone giving up the hobby (apologies for the algae which was all over the rock when I got it...is nearly gone!).

It's growing really fast, fast enough to start growing over the critters around it. It's not a fancy colour only a grey/beige, but def has tiny little polyps and a hard skeleton.

 

[Diesel]

Maybe a toxic tangerine leptastrea or some sort of Cyphastrea.












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[1979fishgeek]

leptastrea is very close gives me something to start googling, but it's polyps are similar (but not identical) to my Porites? Just grows to fast for typical Porites?

 

[Sabellafella]

When the polyps retract, does the skeleton look sunkin in or is it raised above the base?

 

[1979fishgeek]

Better photos! Turned blues off. Looks true to colour here.

 

[1979fishgeek]

When the polyps retract, does the skeleton look sunkin in or is it raised above the base?

Sunken, sunken like little craters.

 

[1979fishgeek]

this is my Porites which has similar polyps. But I did not think Porites was encrusting or a fast grower....this one is slooooooooooow.

 

[Sabellafella]

Porites , sand dollar monti, theres a couple others for some reason i cant think of right now lolol. But most likely porites if it came from liverock

Sunken, sunken like little craters.

 

[Sabellafella]

Better photos! Turned blues off. Looks true to colour here.

Lol dont know how i past this, i think its a sand dollar monti. Nice pictures

 

[1979fishgeek]

Thank you, it's amazing the difference turning off the blues can do!

Really appreciate the ID. Thanks.

 

[Roboson]

It's really pretty actually. I like it despite it being kinda neutral toned

 

[1979fishgeek]

Thank you, I really like it too, loving how it's egulfing the Tube/fan worms they just ending up poking out the top looks really natural and both seen happy. It's more than tripled in size in a month, that's 2ft down on the aquarium floor in a low flow spot that be normally tricky to place a sps in.

I think the more neutral tone corals add a nice balance to brighter ones.