Hitchhiker coral?

[maximallimit]

Hi,

I'm new to the hobby and I just setup my first ever reef tank. It's a 30G with a 10G sump. Today was the day I bought the live rock and put it in the tank. Among tens of brittle stars , there is a coral looking thing on one of the rocks and I couldnt find anything online to look like it. I was hoping someone on here might be able to identify it?

it would be much appreciated

Thanks,
Paul

P.S. Sorry for the potato quality pictures, the water is still a bit cloudy from the sand.

 

[Sk8r]

I can't tell you what it is, only that if it pertains to the structures it could be stony coral, which have skeleton. And that even with a definite cycle, it might survive. Fish die in the slightest ammonia, but live in nitrate that would kill corals (80 and up); and corals tolerate ammonia that would kill fish, but die of nitrate exceeding their fairly low tolerance (under 20, or under 10, or around 5, depending on type). Treat your tank gently, use only ghost-feeding to provoke your cycle (a few flakes of fishfood daily) and you might be pleasantly surprised by life turning up on the rock.

 

[2smokes]

It looks like a dead coral,a skeleton of a LPS coral ,probably Favia,favites,micromusa or even echinophilia.Does it has flesh on it in somme place or it is all white?

 

[Ron Reefman]

It looks like all dead skeleton of an lps or sps coral. I don't think it will be any kind of an issue downstream.

The quality of the pics was a small issue. You also need to figure out how to make them smaller.