Wrasse and Coral ID

The owner of Scales (John) gave this polyp to me, and he didn't know what it was either. It looks a lot like dendrophyllia but is tinted green and has a white skeleton.
 
the wrasse looks like a dragon wrasse who is mid change...they start out as a darker brown color with spikes and change to a light brown with blue and wide fins with no spikes.
 
May be what is sometimes called a green leaf wrasse, I have one, nice, easy to maintain but not reef safe

Marian
 
He's in my predator tank. I knew he wouldn't be reef safe.
He was listed in the order form from the LFS as a miscellaneous wrasse.
Regardless, he is a really cool fish. His scales remind me of the children's book, The Rainbow Fish. :D

No ideas about the polyp? He's my favorite thing in my reef tank now. Eats mysis like a dendro too.
 
Well, I found a pic online that looks to be what mine is.

DEVONSHIRE CUP CORAL Caryophyllia smithii Cup 2.5cm in diameter.
The only species likely to be found. A solitary coral living on rocks from the lower shore to 100m. The polyp is translucent, of various colours. There are spherical knobs at the ends of the tentacles. Common on the west coast. May have a pink barnacle Megatrema anglicum attached to the skeleton.
The other 4 species are rare and live in certain localities in the south west of Britain e.g. Lundy, Skomer and the Scilly Isles.
 
I would agree with the green leaf wrasse, or sometimes called a razor wrasse, but I'm not 100%
Drew
 
I hear ya but that fish is scared to death and is pale. Green leaf Wrasse is mostly Green really no other color to them. That fish has color and look at marking on it's tail and fin.
 
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