Help with coral ID :)

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1. looks like Caulastrea (candy cane) 2.looks like Trachyphillia (brain)3.Gonipra 4.Hydnophora 5.looks like a Chalice if it's hard or hairy mushroom if it's soft or even plating Montipora, can't be sure 6.looks like Pavona
 
1. looks like a retracted Goniopora ? (size reference?)

2. platygyra brain frag

3. size reference? Can't tell, could be a close up of a encrusting monti?

4 Sinularia

5. Montipora capricornis

6.leptoseris
 
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yeah it looked soft to me.

Would help with #1 and #3 if OP would give a size reference.

Almost positive #1 isn't caulastrea, i think its a close up of a much smaller coral.

Yeah, obviously we can't tell if #1 has skeletal polyps or soft, but they look too far apart to be Gonipora to me, #3 looked like a retracted Gonipora but you may be right about the closeness of the picture.
 
#1 is soft and it is retracted in that pic
and all the frags are about the same size except the two plate looking ones
 
Ill stick with #1 being goniopora and #3 being a encrusting montipora or could even be a porites.
 
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