What is this?

ZooYorkUnderworld · Jan 25, 2008

I have heard micro minuta?

cant truly tell from my pics, but its yellow and red!

what do you all think? either way It's a hot peice!

JGoslee · Jan 25, 2008

Thats a nice coral! I stink at id's sorry.

THE BEAUT · Jan 25, 2008

Probably a favia. Very nice one at that.

Pitcom · Jan 25, 2008

Very nice!

ZooYorkUnderworld · Jan 27, 2008

thanks, hey pit whatever is in your avatar is calling me, I want it!

Hypertek99 · Jan 27, 2008

Looks like a micro minuta to me.

Russellaqua · Feb 3, 2008

I'd say a Micromussa sp. mainly because of how aggressively it appears to use its' sweeper tentacles. It'd be more unusual for a Favia sp. to do this. Unfortunately, it's generally impossible to tell for certain what a coral is without a skeletal examination, which means killing at least a portion of the animal. Species ID is definitely not possible for most corals without it, and often genus ID is impossible without it too. I find in general Micromussa sp. corallites are smaller than Favia sp. corallites, with Micromussa sp. being in the ~10 mm range.