Monti I.d.

[Ebob954]

I know it was confusing with the first picture but then when I found the new pictures I knew it would take any confusion out about being a chalice ! That's all!

 

[DSC reef]

Never my intention to come off rude! Thanks for the help! In no way was my comment rude !

No worries. That's the brightest cyphastrea I've seen. Keep an eye out for warfare with that acro, it has nice color too!!

 

[Ebob954]

Hey thanks man! Yea they have more space between them now! This thing glows! All my coral has insane colors! I just posted a bunch of my sps collection in the sps section take a look ! Aquaforest is the way to go!

 

[DSC reef]

Hey thanks man! Yea they have more space between them now! This thing glows! All my coral has insane colors! I just posted a bunch of my sps collection in the sps section take a look ! Aquaforest is the way to go!

Will do!

 

[Livinlocal]

It's some sort of encrusting coral and has the same polyps has say a sunset monti! See it's not a chalice ! Still look like a chalice guys lol?

Based off your first low quality pictures, it would have been called a chalice all day, now that you actually posted something decent for us to take a better look at, everybody can agree it is a cyphastrea.

 

[Livinlocal]

One more thing I want to clear up for educational purposes.

Chalice corals do encrust, and the “eyes” are actually polyps. You may not see them open inside your tank, but I can guarantee the “eyes”(polyps) on a chalice do in fact have flower like features

 

[Ebob954]

show me a chalice with eye (polyps) that come out like flowers polyps??

 

[Ebob954]

maybe a Hollywood stunner or fire fly echino

 

[Ebob954]

but still they don't really patrude off the coral wow I bombed that spelling sorry!

 

[Livinlocal]

I will take a few pictures of mine tonight when I am home. I am not trying to be rude, but how do you think they feed? Their polyps open during the night, and feed just like any other coral.

 

[Livinlocal]

I am really not trying to argue, you could soak in my experience, or turn it away. That’s your choice.

 

[Ebob954]

those are sweeper tentacles not flower polyps like what's on a monti or cpyhastera

 

[Ebob954]

no ones arguing jeez sensitive people these days. Just stating ive never seen a chalice with flower like polyps and what you showed me is sweeper tentacles

 

[Livinlocal]

Ok, have a good day bud.

 

[lbacha]

I just got this from WWC and they sold it as a neon astreopora

It looks a lot like the coral the op posted

 

[pugcrush]

I've seen that pop up at the LFS a while back. It's SUPER bright, but I've got too much green in the tank already. It's not a monti, chalice or cyphastrea. But I recall it being an LPS when i looked it up.

 

[Ebob954]

Yup that's it. I knew I saw on WWC and o knew they were having a hard time figuring out exactly what it is .

 

[pugcrush]

I just got this from WWC and they sold it as a neon astreopora

It looks a lot like the coral the op posted

^^^That's what it was called

 

[BigJohnny]

Hey reefers,

I have this monti that I don't really see out there for sale anytime. I'm calling it green eggs and ham !

That is actually an astreopora

 

[Addicted2Coral]

Just me, or does this look like the sponge bob cyphastrea? Edit* that wwc id is correct ^^