Monti or Porites?

[Tennsquire]

This was sold as a Monti, but I'm thinking it might be Porites. When the polyps are retracted, the corallites are uniform and very symmetrical.

 

[mkutsch]

That'd be my guess too, though I have seen some pretty bizarre monti's before, not to mention long polyp ones. Interesting. Do you have a picture under actinics?

 

[Tennsquire]

That'd be my guess too, though I have seen some pretty bizarre monti's before, not to mention long polyp ones. Interesting. Do you have a picture under actinics?

No actinics, as it's in QT right now and under a basic LED light. It was quite green in the tank it came from....

 

[mkutsch]

Sounds like porites

 

[BigJohnny]

Porites, the polyps stick out further than monti. Doesn't help that the "pink sand dollar monti" is actually a porites....

 

[ReeferBee]

Stylocoeniella?

 

[BigJohnny]

Stylocoeniella?

You are right. I meant to say stylocoeniellas have the long polyps.

 

[mkutsch]

+1, didn't think of them.

 

[Tennsquire]

Still in QT. No polyp extension for 2 days. Today the coral started to slough off mucus pretty heavily, and all is well tonight with polyp extension again. I'm reading that porites do that periodically. Do stylocoeniellas do that? Thinking porites again....

 

[Salty1962]

I'd say a Porites due to recess under the polyps. A stylocoeniella would almost look like a smooth skeleton similar to a monti. JMO