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ID this SPS?

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Has a bunch of fairly large polyps that are pinkish, looks pretty phallic, any idea what it is?

It's the one in the middle, its not nearly as faded and drab looking as it is in the picture. It's very close in color to the monti cap in the background. Probably about 15-20 polyps super extended almost all the time.

When I got it month's ago it looked just as it does now, the whole bottom part that is brown is not part of the coral, I glued it on to that piece. It actually spent about 2 months in the sand behind my rockwork until one day I got it out and mounted it where it is now.

Also, the polyps extend out from the smooth rounded parts, in the picture you can see where the polyps extend out from. All the acropora pics I have seen have little calcified tubes the polyps extend out from, this one however does not.

Maybe its a monti?
 
Way too small of an SPS to be able to be ID'd, sorry. Give it a couple months!
 
[quote author=iani link=topic=4752.msg57968#msg57968 date=1223515644]
I don't think that is an SPS.
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Oh...

Well, while I'm at it, how about one more ID? It came attached to a large frag of candy cane coral I got around April or May of this year. Hasn't split or moved and stayed about the same size the whole time.

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With the feeding tenticles, it almost looks like a single acan or micro poly.

The "sps" reminds me of a leather coral.
 
[quote author=Gomer link=topic=4752.msg58050#msg58050 date=1223563056]
With the feeding tenticles, it almost looks like a single acan or micro poly.

The "sps" reminds me of a leather coral.
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Or any other mussid, favia, etc. Way to hard to tell from a single polyp with no skeletal structure. But you can tell it's definitely not a yuma or mushroom :)

First SPS is too small of an animal to ID. You could blow the pic up to 20'x20' and it wouldn't change the fact. Let it grow and ask us again in a few months :)
 
Thanks guys, the only thing with the 2nd ID (mussid) is that i have had this thing for over 6 months and it hasn't grown, moved or done anything. Looks exactly as it did when I got it.
 
low light, lack of food, low or out of wack parameters all could do that. Some corals don't grow fast either.
 
yeah have you fed the thing? I recall one excellent talk we had about feeding your reef... that gave some numbers like photosynthesis only provides 95% of the corals energy needs (or maybe it was a tad higher, anyways it was less than 100%)... but that other 5% is all your growth, healing, fighting off other corals... :)
 
I feed the candy cane coral that its attached to with both mysis and cyclopeeze(sp?) and there is always some spillover from those feedings. I'm going to start targeting it and see what happens.

Thanks again all!
 
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