Help ID SPS?

[jbm421]

I picked up this coral that I have never seen before as I thought it was absolutely stunning but can't figure out what it is. It looks like a monti but with tentacles like galaxia'ish it was thought to be a type of Merulina but turns out it's not.

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[kevin_e]

Pic without blues on please.

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[jbm421]

Pic without blues on please.

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[kevin_e]

Hmm interesting. Maybe some sort pf Pavona?

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[jbm421]

Hmm interesting. Maybe some sort pf Pavona?

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That's a good guess but no they have hairs these are more galaxia tentacles with balls on the end lol I will post another pic of a frag I took off of it.

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[kevin_e]

That's a good guess but no they have hairs these are more galaxia tentacles with balls on the end lol I will post another pic of a frag I took off of it.

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Thats a stumper. Hopefully someone chimes in. Not familiar with it.

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[pisanoal]

Looks like a hydnophora to me.

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[jbm421]

Nope definitely not that either

 

[Diverdown1]

Plating hydnaphora - http://www.melevsreef.com/critter/hydnophora-microconos

 

[pisanoal]

Plating hydnaphora - http://www.melevsreef.com/critter/hydnophora-microconos

Yep. That's my bet

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[jbm421]

Yep. That's my bet

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That's really close but it's not it. Hydnophora Microconos doesn't have the individual tentacles that this does rather it has a cluster kind of around a polyp although that is a coral I have never seen before that's not it either. The detail of the polyps is how to tell the difference. Thank you for trying though I have been in this hobby for 15 yrs and haven't seen either.

 

[jbm421]

Not sure but it's one of the coolest sps corals I have ever seen I love the thing.

 

[reefmutt]

Merulina? I think that’s the spelling..

 

[Softhammer]

I’ll put everything on hydnophora still. There are many species of them. Not just what the coral dealers have and very often mis-identify. Those rings of polyps around the bumps are called hydnophores.