LPS ID please

[msaba]

Purchased this LPS as a single polyp 2 years ago and has grown into a nice little colony, I believe it came from the Atlantic but that's all I can remember. I haven't seen a similar one since. Would appreciate any thoughts on ID. thanks

Mark

 

[cloak]

Tubastrea of some sort?

 

[msaba]

it doesn't have the hard skeleton of the tubastrea. The inside of each corallite is fluorescent green which is hard to see from the picture

 

[cloak]

So the whole thing basically just feels like a rubber ball? Are you sure there's no skeleton at all?

 

[cloak]

I just looked through some of my books and they had a picture of a Montastrea cavernosa that looked very similar. I did a search and came up with this. (link below) Pretty close...

http://www.arkive.org/great-star-coral/montastraea-cavernosa/

 

[msaba]

Cloak--that is correct I'm sure--thanks so much!

Mark