ID please?

[Arrg]

I am going to go with Non-Photosynthetic on this but I could be wrong. I just know a frag of this has survived in another tank with the lights out for about a week and a half, sometimes it has polyps other times it does not, sometimes they show at night sometimes during the day. If anybody has an idea what it is called please let me know. For now I'm calling it my super coral because it has surived at least 2 tank crashes in the past 5 years.

 

[GerritM]

I think it is a Heliopora coerulea - Blue Ridge Coral, but it´s not a non-photosynthetic coral.

 

[Arrg]

I don't think it is Blue Ridge coral, I've had that before and they grow thick this is thin and plate like similar to a Montipora but it's not a monti.

 

[GerritM]

I've had that before and they grow thick this is thin and plate like similar to a Montipora but it's not a monti.

Maybe, but they grow that way.

http://www.freshmarine.com/blue-ridge-coral.html

"Morphology: Blue Ridge Coral is the only reef building Soft Coral which has a hard skeleton. The body of Heliopora coerulea is composed of Calcium Carbonate and Iron salts. The structure of the Blue Ridge Coral is columnar, encrusting, branched and plate-like. When...."

Why not yours?
My own growing like a ball. And now their grow "horns" like a Montipora digitata

 

[Arrg]

hmm okay maybe it is then. I was hoping it was something cooler. The last piece I had died off on me fast so I figured with this thing never dying it was something different. Well it is still a great piece! If you were not in Germany I would send you a frag of it for IDing it for me lol.

 

[GerritM]

If you were not in Germany I would send you a frag of it for IDing it for me lol.

Sorry !!!!! :wavehand:

 

[gohstwrighter]

it is blue ridge thay all grow like plate till thayer happy with ther bace and then thay blob up