Help ID this please....

[schroedel]

I have posted this coral awile back but i dont think i ever got an answer but that it was a monti. can anyone ID this? It it the tan one below the setosa. it is tanish in colr has whit polyps does not seem to like alot of light and the surface is smoth shiny. i have only seen once befor in my 20yrs of looking in LFS. if a better pict is needed i will provide. Thanks alot.

 

[scchase]

Blue Ridge Coral its actually an octocoral ie more clodely related to the softies.

 

[dc]

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We'll try here.

 

[schroedel]

Looking at pictures by golly you may be right!! Here is a picture of the mother colony before i rescued the piece i have. A hard softie huh? Hope this picture will help confirm. You dont see it very oftenor at least i don't. Thanks tons!!!

 

[schroedel]

"Octocorals resemble the stony corals in general appearance and in the size of their polyps, but lack the distinctive stony skeleton. Also unlike the stony corals, each polyp has only eight tentacles, each of which is feather-like in shape, with numerous side-branches, or pinnules"
Well i cant see well enough to count tenticals but it does have a stony skeleton and does encrust like a monti.

 

[MarkusII]

Hello,

yes it is a Heliopora coerulea

regards

Markus

 

[schroedel]

Thank you guys!!! mystery solved.