Probably impossible coral ID

[jrawk1120]

I say probably impossible because it’s so small that it’s hard to get a picture. I put it in LPS because that’s what was previously on the plug.

I had an issue with my Duncan’s recently. One day, they all closed up and wouldn’t open.

After losing 2, I took the remaining 3 and put them in my bio cube on my rack. They slowly came back to life.

The tank they came from had other LPS that had zero effect. They’re still all open and looking great.

So I wanted to test to see how the Duncan would do in the big tank again. I removed a plug that had one of the dead Duncans on it, replaced it with a healthy one. I had already taken the skeleton off of the plug. On the plug though is this tiny green dot with pores. No clue what it could be.

 

[Nano_Man]

@i cant think might know and if not he will know someone

 

[56longroof]

Impossible to identify with the heavy blue.

 

[i cant think]

I say probably impossible because it’s so small that it’s hard to get a picture. I put it in LPS because that’s what was previously on the plug.

I had an issue with my Duncan’s recently. One day, they all closed up and wouldn’t open.

After losing 2, I took the remaining 3 and put them in my bio cube on my rack. They slowly came back to life.

The tank they came from had other LPS that had zero effect. They’re still all open and looking great.

So I wanted to test to see how the Duncan would do in the big tank again. I removed a plug that had one of the dead Duncans on it, replaced it with a healthy one. I had already taken the skeleton off of the plug. On the plug though is this tiny green dot with pores. No clue what it could be.

It could be a couple of things, but an LPS is unlikely.
It looks quite similar to how my Porites started out when I was growing that coral. It was just a very small green dot with brown polyps on a mariculture base which had a torch colony on.
It could also be a Montipora spongoides, but I’m not seeing the skeletal pattern they get, whilst porites just encrust on whatever they can.

 

[jrawk1120]

I say probably impossible because it’s so small that it’s hard to get a picture. I put it in LPS because that’s what was previously on the plug.

I had an issue with my Duncan’s recently. One day, they all closed up and wouldn’t open.

After losing 2, I took the remaining 3 and put them in my bio cube on my rack. They slowly came back to life.

The tank they came from had other LPS that had zero effect. They’re still all open and looking great.

So I wanted to test to see how the Duncan would do in the big tank again. I removed a plug that had one of the dead Duncans on it, replaced it with a healthy one. I had already taken the skeleton off of the plug. On the plug though is this tiny green dot with pores. No clue what it could be.

It could be a couple of things, but an LPS is unlikely.
It looks quite similar to how my Porites started out when I was growing that coral. It was just a very small green dot with brown polyps on a mariculture base which had a torch colony on.
It could also be a Montipora spongoides, but I’m not seeing the skeletal pattern they get, whilst porites just encrust on whatever they can.

Thanks! I’m going to just let it do its thing and see what happens.

I was looking at it more and there are “lashes” but there’s the one in the middle.

 

[thamnasteroid]

Porites or Stylocoeniella

 

[i cant think]

Thanks! I’m going to just let it do its thing and see what happens.

I was looking at it more and there are “lashes” but there’s the one in the middle.

Is it growing in a cup type formation? If so it could also be a possible turbinaria which would make some sense as they aren’t bothered by Duncans (I believe they actually put a few of the Turbinaria species into Duncanopsammia)

 

[jrawk1120]

Thanks! I’m going to just let it do its thing and see what happens.

I was looking at it more and there are “lashes” but there’s the one in the middle.

Is it growing in a cup type formation? If so it could also be a possible turbinaria which would make some sense as they aren’t bothered by Duncans (I believe they actually put a few of the Turbinaria species into Duncanopsammia)

Too small to tell really. I would say it’s more of a dome