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[hockusspockuss]

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[IrishTang]

Sponge?

 

[hockusspockuss]

I don't think so at night is cover with purple polyps!

 

[Postal]

It looks like purple lace coral, just with a little denser growth pattern than typical. Lace coral is a NPS coral so will need regular feedings.

 

[ichthyman]

A reasoned guess without first hand observation but to me it appears to be a Helioporidae. There is only one species of Heliopora but it is highly adaptive and has many, many, many different growth forms/shapes. It is the only Octocoral known to produce a "massive" stony skeleton. Usually sold in trinket "ocean death" shops as "Blue-ridge" however when alive, viewed under 6.5k daylight, it is a shade of brown with whitish polyps.

 

[IrishTang]

Cool find! Never seen one before. Did you buy this or did it hitch in on a rock?

 

[hockusspockuss]

John I think your right!

I got him on a 300g breakdown!