Red and green Psammocora

[Kano]

I picked up a zoa rock that had a tiny piece of psammocora (size of a dime) on it with the hopes that it would survive. It has grown out some and appears to be doing great! :smile: I just took it out of the water to scrape off some blue cloves that also came with it but I've never noticed it having tentacles coming out. I wasn't sure if this is a common color morph or not. Either way I'm happy with it. Let me know what you think and if you've seen it before. Thanks.

 

[Reefing8EZ]

Looks more like leptoseris to me.. But very nice, lots of potential!!

 

[Kano]

I agree. I forgot about leptoseris. I did a quick edit to get some of the blue out. As with all my pictures, it looks better in person.

 

[ritter6788]

Nice find.

 

[ReefHero]

Definitely lepto in that pic!!


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[spspirate]

I wonder if its grafted?

 

[Kano]

I doubt it. It came in on a zoa rock and I'm unsure if the LFS knew it was on there. The zoas were not very impressive and had some free aiptasia included as well. I could see a few inches of dead skeleton when I was getting the rock but only a little dime sized piece remained alive. I was surprised it survived since I thought it was dying off still but it pulled through *knock on wood*.

 

[Frick]

Sweet color combo. It can still be natrually grafted.

Are you sure it's not Pavona cactus? I don't see a leptoseris of psammocora that looks like that.
Corals of the World Factsheet and images - Pavona cactus