help with this ID of this coral

[medic29]

I'm curious what this coral is and finally have the time to post some pics of this coral. It was a hitch hiker on a gorgonian I got a few months ago.

Initially I was told it was a sun coral, but I question that because from what I've been told and read, they usually are not out or open up when the lights are on and this thing just doesn't seem to care. Plus, I have not found any pics of a sun coral that has a base like this one does.

The base seems to wrap around the branch of the gorgonian and the coral moves. Initially it would just spin around on the branch and face diffferent directions. But it also had moved up and down the branch and to other branches.

 

[medic29]

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This is an example of it spun around; if you not from the previuos pictures it was pointing the opposite direction and I couldn't get any clear pics of the front of the coral.

I had moved the gorgonian because it didn't look happy and a short time later this coral dissappeared and I figured it ended up dying because I had moved the gorgonian, but I wasn't sure, I just didn't know what had happened it it.

Then several days later it showed up again on a different gorgonian on the other side of the tank, in the front of the tank in direct light.

In researching this I learned there is a coral called a Dendrophyllia that is similar to a sun coral. I've looked at pics of these as well, but can't tell if what I have is one of them or not.

If anyone has any ideas I would definitely be interested in what I have in my tank.

Thanks!!!

 

[Chelsey]

How big is it? It is likely some kind of dendro or the like.

 

[medic29]

smaller than a dime, but bigger than a standard pencil eraser, if that helps. Obiviuosly looks bigger when it is open, then when it is closed up, similar to how button polyps look when open and closed.

 

[levon15]

My first thought at the first pic was that it is a dendro.

 

[medic29]

Possibly ID'd

Possibly ID'd

<a href=showthread.php?s=&postid=9581469#post9581469 target=_blank>Originally posted</a> by Flint&Eric
looks like a wrapper gorg anemone to me. They hitch on gorgonians and mimic their polyps. Usually they are on simmilar colored anemones though. Nemanthus annamensis (sp?)

eric

It seems it may be this. From some of the pics I've looked at, it looks similar.