Cap or no cap?

[sfsuphysics]

And if it's no cap what is it?

I thought this was a monti cap but read something on another thread about caps not tending to have ridges and bumps so now I'm wondering myself.

Original piece

Piece that unfortunately broke off when I was moving stuff around, it has colored up greatly (that and the picture was taken with a much better camera)

 

[twon8]

i would say not a cap, looks like a confusa, as the edges have ridges aligned parellel to each other, but not at the interior of the coral.

 

[itz frank]

agreed. that's not a cap. M. Confusa would be my guess as well.

 

[twon8]

or maybe an undata; really hard to tell with monti's

 

[Shawnts106]

No, this is capric... notice how it plates, and that color combo should be a brown/purple base with blue polyps... I have seen monti caps like this...

IF it wasnt a cap I would say Undata.

 

[twon8]

lots of monti's plate, but caps dont' have the ridges which this one does have.

 

[Shawnts106]

Oh, I see what you mean now!

interesting... I never noticed this before!

 

[sfsuphysics]

Hmmm, I looked at some M.confusa pictures and many seem to almost get "branches" of sort.. I was thinking M.undata as well since it reminded me a bit of the Idaho Grape, guess everything that's flat and grows in a plate is refered to as a "cap" nowadays

Shawn pretty much got the color combo though, although to me it looks more like purple polyps.. but I can see blue now that you mention it

 

[maggiesaqsup]

undata is my guess.

 

[wentreefgirl]

The second pic looks undata. I think chris is looking for more Id's. You should post it there.

 

[Justin/TiV]

it's undata for sure...I have a couple of these in my tank, it's the fastest growing coral in my tank