ID this sun coral

[vaporize]

Came across this at the Orlando Seaworld, this specific morph I have not seen and it is not a duncan as it has no polyp extension in bright sun light unlike the duncans.

It looks more like the typical tuberastea sun coral but I have not seen them in green before.

 

[flying_dutchman]

It's a "candy cane" Caulastrea furcata, photosynthetic.

 

[vaporize]

it's not a candy cane.

Here is another pic

 

[Western_reefer]

Hmmm... Interesting... Never seen such Green suncorals before.

 

[GoingPostal]

How do you know it's not just ticked off duncans? Do you have a pic of them open at night?

 

[vaporize]

because there are many colonies of them around the tank and looked the same

and now it's not in my home, it's in Seaworld as I stated.

 

[scalowagreef]

With the flash they look like they could be duncans. Veeeeeeeerry interesting.

 

[Aquabacs]

Most likely, Tubastrea micrantha with the flash.

Mike

 

[vaporize]

Mike, it's light green in color, you saw the two pictures, one with flash, one without. It really is not that black or dark green at all. We have Tubastrea micrantha shipments all the time, so I can recognise them easily. I am wondering if it's anything local

 

[WSI2406]

It looks like a duncan. I had a colony a while back looked the same when it was ticked off and I was moving it. The light and flow have a lot to do with the formation of the duncan, short, tall, structure.

 

[alexruegamer]

hi
closed duncan!!!
i have the same coral!

alex

 

[coltrref]

Interestingly, I have not seen green tubastreas flourecente.
in my research paper suncorals in http://www.reefitaliascience.it/magazine/2009-2/tubastree.html could ensure that the images shown are not.
I also think that this is a duncan

 

[vaporize]

@alexruegamer, WSI2406 you guys have a picture that we can cross - ID.

In that huge reef tank, there must be at least a dozen colonies of them under bright light and none of them were opened. I have never seen duncans not slightly open under bright lighting especially all of them at various bottom places. Can be water quality also but this family is also very hard to get tick off and SPS were having polyp extensions in that tank so it cannot be that off.

 

[happysak]

hi
closed duncan!!!
i have the same coral!

alex

+1. Closed duncan

 

[WSI2406]

Here is one I found on google. I only have pics of the duncan open.

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