Red Acan Maxima for CHEAP!!!

[BOKER420]

The ruler is actually in the tank sitting just behind the coral.

 

[RandyO]

I'll be honest with you Boker. I've never seen a coral like yours before. To me, that's truly a one of a kind piece.(Until someone else shows one)
But I would not call it Acanthastrea Maxima. I do think it's more likely to be an undescribed species. Obviously you can't be 100% of a corals Genus just from a picture, but your piece has an Acanthastrea look to it. More than most of the unusual Mussides I've seen.

Any dead polyps on the underside? Try and get a photo of it at night, after the lights have been out for a few hours.

 

[chrisstie]

Bokers to me looks like a weird acan echinata ( or sub? im not good with that distinction) with a mutation with one big fat weird polyp and the rest of the colony starting to grow out from that one.

I'd be very curious to see what that looks like in a years time!

 

[BOKER420]

At night it has feeder tenticles out along the rim of each polyp. Just like a lord or micro. I'll frag a polyp or 2 here pretty soon. I want to see if the polyps grow large like the middle one. And a few of the smaller polyps are already borderline larger than a normal echinata polyp.

 

[BOKER420]

night time. It's pretty blurry though.