Please ID this coral...

[ReefWhatYouSow]

Was given this coral by a friend. Can anyone ID it?

You may have to zoom in to see the corralites.

 

[CuzzA]

Looks like Tube Coral Cladocora arbuscula

Found in the Gulf, Atlantic and Caribbean. Illegal to harvest. Be careful what you do with it.

 

[ReefWhatYouSow]

Good call CuzzA. Free things are usually too good to be true. You want it? Lol...

 

[CuzzA]

Haha. No thanks. Maybe a university would have interest or a reef restoration organization. Ask Billsreef (mod) what to do with it.

 

[ReefWhatYouSow]

Haha. No thanks. Maybe a university would have interest or a reef restoration organization. Ask Billsreef (mod) what to do with it.

So looking at it, none of the corralites pertrude. They are kind of smooth against the coral. I couldn't find something similar online.

Maybe I should take a picture with the polyps out?

 

[CuzzA]

You know what. I thinks it's Oculina Robusta. Tampa Bay Area coral.

 

[ReefWhatYouSow]

It definitely looks more like that!

I didn't even know that we had coral in Tampa lol...

Do you know much about it?

 

[ReefWhatYouSow]

I just found this...

www.iucnredlist.org/details/133533/0

 

[ReefWhatYouSow]

And now I've found some who say high light, and some say low light NPS. This will be fun!

 

[cloak]

Check this out. No?

http://reefguide.org/carib/diffuseivorybushcoral.html

 

[ReefWhatYouSow]

New pic...

 

[Dkuhlmann]

It looks Happy :dance:

 

[Bcrowe2012]

Whatever it is, it's a beautiful coral!

 

[Coralreefer1]

It is a species of Porites! Attenuata possibly...

 

[ReefWhatYouSow]

It has definitely started growing on me. It has beautiful undertones with green polyps. I'm looking forward to seeing the colors over time.