New LPS!....but I don't know what they are. Please help?

[Arthur_Dent]

Hmm, still a little hard to determine for 9. but judging from the shape its frag, it looks like a encrusting sps. Unless if you could lift the coral up and take a pic of it close to the surface, I can’t say for sure. Still most probably a stylocoeniella or bernardpora as the polyps look a little too big to be a porites or monti.

thanks! I'll get a better pic next time I turn flow off.

 

[Angeleyes reefraf]

Here's my earthbound echinata It's a little bit agitated I just did a water change

 

[Arthur_Dent]

Resolved the issue I was having with the euglena. Tank is looking much better. All LPS still look happy.

 

[Arthur_Dent]

Ok. Finally got a better pic of the mystery coral. Anyone know what this guy is?

 

[fishguy242]

favia??

 

[Arthur_Dent]

favia??

I feel like the polyps are too small for favia. They're like 0.5-1.0 mm across. Could be, though.

 

[fishguy242]

@vetteguy53081 ?

 

[vetteguy53081]

Looks like either micro favia or favites coral but hard to tell with heavy blue lighting

 

[Arthur_Dent]

Looks like either micro favia or favites coral but hard to tell with heavy blue lighting

Thanks!

Here's one with whites bumped to 100 and a flash.

 

[vetteguy53081]

Thanks!

Here's one with whites bumped to 100 and a flash.

Yes - Micro favia also called prism favia

 

[Arthur_Dent]

Yes - Micro favia also called prism favia

Thanks so much! Now to figure out how to make it a little happier.

 

[Alexopora]

Thanks!

Here's one with whites bumped to 100 and a flash.

Looks a little more like a retracted flowerpot coral to me. But judging how its corallities are about the size of your Cyphastrea. I’m wondering if its a Bernardpora.

http://www.coralsoftheworld.org/species_factsheets/species_factsheet_summary/bernardpora-stutchburyi/

 

[Arthur_Dent]

Looks a little more like a retracted flowerpot coral to me. But judging how its corallities are about the size of your Cyphastrea. I’m wondering if its a Bernardpora.

http://www.coralsoftheworld.org/species_factsheets/species_factsheet_summary/bernardpora-stutchburyi/

I agree the polyps look a bit small. Will look into bernardpora. Thanks!

Whatever it is, it isn't doing well. Trying to save it before it's a goner. Everything else is thriving.

 

[Alexopora]

I agree the polyps look a bit small. Will look into bernardpora. Thanks!

Whatever it is, it isn't doing well. Trying to save it before it's a goner. Everything else is thriving.

Sorry to hear that, have you tried feeding it? The fact that it is only this coral that is going downhill is making me suspect this is one of the flowerpots rather than a favia or favites.

 

[vetteguy53081]

Thanks so much! Now to figure out how to make it a little happier.

Get it away from sand which will irritate it. Moderate light and water flow
Temp 77/79
Salinity 1.025

 

[Arthur_Dent]

Thanks! I'll get it back up onto a frag rack and outta the sand. It was looking like it was bleaching in the rack, which is the reason I moved it lower, but I could be mistaken.

 

[Arthur_Dent]

I think I've figured it out.... I came across these photos today, and they're identical to this mystery frag. I assumed LPS, but I think the store shipped me a sand dollar porites...

If that's the case, I now understand why it hasn't been thriving. It's starving for light.