This picture is actually one from another reefer's tank; however, one of these just started growing in my tank on a frag that I have had for years. It looks exactly the same and I am not sure of this is some sort of LPS or some possible pest. It looks to be a blasto or something similar. The size of the one in my tank is about the size of pencil eraser...any thoughts?
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See that's what is bizarre! I thought the same thing since it definitely looks like the skeletal structure of cynaria...but I have never had any cynaria in my system. I did have a plate coral in my system about 6 months ago and it was brutally attacked by several angels and ripped to shreds...end of that.:sad2: About three months ago I noticed some fluorescence on the dead plate skeleton under my LED's and it looked like a tiny piece of the plate had survived but then was quickly abolished when I started using probiotics. Now that I got the low nutrient system in check and my corals are starting to recover, potassium level is back to normal, etc...I notice this little guy growing.
Okay...so I understand from the looks it may "look" like a plate or Cynaria; however, lets use a different question for identification. Do plate corals or Cynaria-Scolymia-lobo-wellso or even brain corals, attach themselves to rocks? In other words; do they grow their skeletal structure to marry the body to another mass? I've never seen this happen...which leads me to doubt the types that are being presented.
I remember hearing something like that also.
