Coral ID

[mguiling]

I had this in LPS, but hope I'm in the right place now. I hadn't expected to be studying corals for a month or so, but, this came with my lr order and rather than cycle it, I moved it to my show tank. There were several in the cycle tank that did not survive.

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TIA

 

[mguiling]

Could it be Stylophora pistillata?

 

[Southreef]

I think it's a Florida Tube Coral

http://collierseagrant.blogspot.com/2011/08/common-coral-species-associated-with.html

 

[mguiling]

Found it - Cladocora arbuscula. Thanks so much!

 

[Whisperer]

Not really.
The one is front is a common hitch hiker on Tampa Bay LR. It is a kind of montastrea, the closest specie I can match is M. curta although it's home is said to be in the pacific. Montastrea cavernosa is found in the Florida waters, and is therefore my guess.

 

[mguiling]

Not really.
The one is front is a common hitch hiker on Tampa Bay LR. It is a kind of montastrea, the closest specie I can match is M. curta although it's home is said to be in the pacific. Montastrea cavernosa is found in the Florida waters, and is therefore my guess.

The pictures I find of M. cavernosa don't look like what I have. http://coralpedia.bio.warwick.ac.uk/en/corals/montastraea_cavernosa.html
but after looking some more, only the back one looks like Cladocora arbuscula, I don't find either with the Saguaro shape of the one in front anywhere except in images of Stylophora pistillata.