Id Needed On Weird Lps?

[Elliott89]

Got this cheap due to the damage but i dont know what it is?

 

[Olliereefer]

Hello mate
Has it more than one mouth??
Could be a scolymia (If it has one mouth)!!!
Looks like a lobo brain too me in a bad way as the skeleton is showing but start feeding it on brine and mysis then onto chopped up silversides and it might recover.
Looks like a nice one
Good luck
Ollie

 

[Elliott89]

Ollie you can have a look for yourself next week

It appears to have just the one mouth!

 

[Olliereefer]

Will do mate, But someone on here will have a better idea as they see alot more of these than we do in the UK !
Good luck
Olliereefer

 

[organism]

looks like a scolymia or cynarina, either way a great find if it makes it

 

[duec22]

I think it's a Lobo also. If what I'm seeing is what I think they are there are three mouths on that bad boy. The three spots in in the center disk where the orange color comes to a brighter point. I keep in on the bottom of the tank for now in a lowwer flow area. Try turing off the pumps and putting some mysis where the inner and outter disks come together this should give you a feeding response which in turn should show you how many mouths. Hope it recovers....it looks like it could be a very impressive piece.

Here is a good website to ID it with. I think you have enough skeletal structure showing to ID it between a Lobo, scolymia or cynarina. I think the "teeth" are to far apart to be a scolymia, and a cynarina has distintive pattern on the "teeth". You should have a much better idea though seeing it in person. HTH

http://whelk.aims.gov.au/coralsearch/coralid_search.php

 

[Bcollins111900]

I am thinking lobo. How large in diamiter is it?

 

[jessp]

i'd say lobo

 

[Al G Blenny]

Skeleton looks like either Scoly or Lobo but the tissue looks alot like a gold Lobo.