identify coral, im thinking a bounce chalice

[Boxed Fish]

 

[Decamicron Labs Verified Sponsor]

I don't think this looks like any of the chalices to me. The oral plate looks a bit too large. Do you have more images from different angles and higher resolution?

 

[Bob Weigant]

Too hard to tell with my eyesight

 

[winzig]

I like the wrasse,lol

 

[thamnasteroid]

Merulinidae sp. (probably really deformed Dipsastraea), not chalice

 

[Boxed Fish]

I like the wrasse,lol

blu star leopard very top fav

 

[Boxed Fish]

I don't think this looks like any of the chalices to me. The oral plate looks a bit too large. Do you have more images from different angles and higher resolution?

I just fed spot fed it so its curled up a bit

 

[Boxed Fish]

could be a Scolymia, Favia (maybe not), chalice and as @thamnasteroid said Dipsastraea. the coloring in the center is very attractive

 

[Decamicron Labs Verified Sponsor]

I'm going to defer to @thamnasteroid for this one. He knows this stuff better than me. One corallite wall sharing multiple mouths is a very telling trait, but I don't know it off the top of my head.

This isn't a Scolymia or Favia. There are many corals sold as Favia in the hobby, but that genus is restricted to the Atlantic, where it is very illegal to collect coral. The large oral plate rules out many of the genera labelled as chalices in the hobby.

 

[Boxed Fish]

can we get this bumped, really looking to find out what this is

 

[Decamicron Labs Verified Sponsor]

can we get this bumped, really looking to find out what this is

Are you willing to sacrifice tissue and can you get 100% ethanol? We can do genetic testing for the genus, but no guarantee on the species. Send me a dm.