Please help ID this coral I got for free please?

[maddieb]

I got this frag from an online seller and they didn’t say what the name of it was. Does anyone know what it is called I’ve tried finding it myself with no luck it just says it’s a Monti

it’s the red one in the middle. Any help would be appreciated it also has little tentacles that come out in the night

 

[Catawba_Valley_Reef]

Probably a chalice of some type.

 

[mabdelk]

Acan echinata?

 

[Red_Beard]

Favia looks more like

 

[maddieb]

I grabbed some better photos of it

 

[Red_Beard]

That might could be a chalice, I think that is the direction i would lean. Definitely doesn't look like a monti.

 

[DrkNMighty]

Looks like a chalice. You might need to move it as those sweeper tentacles will sting other corals they come into contact with.

 

[maddieb]

Yeah I thought Monti didn’t sound right. And wonderful I will be moving it today any idea where I should place it? This is the current set up.

 

[JonoH]

Red Chalice i think

 

[JonoH]

Yeah I thought Monti didn’t sound right. And wonderful I will be moving it today any idea where I should place it? This is the current set up.

Generally (not all) chalice corals prefer to be low down in the tank, they will encrust whatever you grow them on.

I have a similar red chalice that sits about mid tank on some live rock that it's slowly encrusting. But it gets a fair amount of shading from the SPS higher.

 

[Pridedcloth3]

That's either gonna be a favia or acan. Chalice coral are always thin like Monti cap, growing in a plating form. This is an encrusting coral.

 

[Pridedcloth3]

It's 100% echinata. Here's mine which is identical

 

[Gumbies R Us]

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[kingranch2003]

@VintageReefer

Ha you beat me to it