Need Help identifying cup coral

[noobjelly]

This is my first time post and I am not good in my languages skill. I would say sorry if some sentences are not correctly written.

I got this coral form my local store’s lived rock garbage can for free. They said it was just small 1 inch piece of dead coral skeleton. It was all white but i can see transparent coral tissue there. When i came home i cut him off the attached rock and glued him to epoxy base. next day, i saw tiny orange tentacle come off and i started to feed him frozen food with vitamins supplements almost daily.

I have kept him for over 3 months and now his tentacles start to have more fluorescent green looking, his tissue is encrusting over his dead structure and the polyp extension is readily present when close to daily feeding time.

Green fluorescent looking when the light is on.

I am not sure about this coral but i believe he is non-photosynthetic coral. I have other cup/sun corals and they don’t look close to this coral.
Can anyone help to Identify this coral ? I would say thank you very much if there is genus or species of this coral. Thank you again !

 

[KrisReef]

Walking Dendro?I think that is the same as these:

 

[thamnasteroid]

No, not walking dendro, as this coral probably came from Florida maricultured live rock and walking dendros don't occur in the west Atlantic

 

[EeyoreIsMySpiritAnimal]

This is my first time post and I am not good in my languages skill. I would say sorry if some sentences are not correctly written.

I got this coral form my local store’s lived rock garbage can for free. They said it was just small 1 inch piece of dead coral skeleton. It was all white but i can see transparent coral tissue there. When i came home i cut him off the attached rock and glued him to epoxy base. next day, i saw tiny orange tentacle come off and i started to feed him frozen food with vitamins supplements almost daily.

I have kept him for over 3 months and now his tentacles start to have more fluorescent green looking, his tissue is encrusting over his dead structure and the polyp extension is readily present when close to daily feeding time.

Green fluorescent looking when the light is on.

I am not sure about this coral but i believe he is non-photosynthetic coral. I have other cup/sun corals and they don’t look close to this coral.
Can anyone help to Identify this coral ? I would say thank you very much if there is genus or species of this coral. Thank you again !

I can't help you with the name of the coral, but GREAT JOB bringing it back to life!!! It looks amazing!

 

[fishguy242]

This is my first time post and I am not good in my languages skill. I would say sorry if some sentences are not correctly written.

I got this coral form my local store’s lived rock garbage can for free. They said it was just small 1 inch piece of dead coral skeleton. It was all white but i can see transparent coral tissue there. When i came home i cut him off the attached rock and glued him to epoxy base. next day, i saw tiny orange tentacle come off and i started to feed him frozen food with vitamins supplements almost daily.

I have kept him for over 3 months and now his tentacles start to have more fluorescent green looking, his tissue is encrusting over his dead structure and the polyp extension is readily present when close to daily feeding time.

Green fluorescent looking when the light is on.

I am not sure about this coral but i believe he is non-photosynthetic coral. I have other cup/sun corals and they don’t look close to this coral.
Can anyone help to Identify this coral ? I would say thank you very much if there is genus or species of this coral. Thank you again !

Hi ,welcome to the reef ,agreeing with dendro, nice save... :)

No, not walking dendro, as this coral probably came from Florida maricultured live rock and walking dendros don't occur in the west Atlantic

OP is from Thailand , all rock and coral trade is banned to and from from the USA .

 

[thamnasteroid]

OP is from Thailand , all rock and coral trade is banned to and from from the USA .

Oh. I read the part where they said the coral came from a live rock and assumed it was a Florida maricultured rock, but guess I was wrong.

It still wouldn't be a walking dendro though, as those are free-living, larger, and have a green oral disk. The corallite build is different, too: Heteropsammia have a figure-8 shaped corallite with a circular base.