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[pendergrass]

What is this coral? It is encrusted but it has hundreds of fingers that cover it.

 

[melev]

The picture is rather blurry, making it hard to see what I look for normally, but I have a feeling it might be a plating hydnophora perhaps. Can you touch it with something (chopstick, perhaps) and get a sharp picture with the polyps retracted?

Is it a stony or is it soft?

 

[pendergrass]

It is stony but the litttle fingers are soft. The fingers will completly retract back into the coral when touched. When this happens it is a pink and green bubbly surface

 

[washingtond]

It is a good looking piece. You say that it has a calcium structure under the polyps? It could be a Podabacia (Plate Coral) looking at my reference guide coral book.

Edit: added link http://www2.aims.gov.au/coralsearch/html/701-800/Species%20pages/723.htm

 

[pendergrass]

I think this is it.
http://www.corallibrary.info/showphoto.php?photo=132

 

[melev]

@pendergrass wrote:

Hydnophora_microconos - looks like I was close.

Here's one I got:

http://www.melevsreef.com/id/hydnophora.html

 

[pendergrass]

That looks to be the same one. Yours is got alot of color. What type of lighting is that under?

 

[melev]

Metal halides, same as always.

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[pendergrass]

Yep, Thats why. He is under T-5s.