Unidentified Coral

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olaf

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It started out looking like a plate coral, round and about the size of an eraser.
It has a hard base (skeleton). The top is fleshy.
It looks like either a Merulina or Mycedium (Chalice).
It came in on a piece of live rock from Bali two years ago.
 
I have taken many pictures of this coral and none ever come out. All taken with my phone, believe it or not I do not have a camera.
 
I am in the smae boat as you when it comes to pics. Maybe just search the net for pics of diff lps type corals and hope for the best.
 
I posted some more images, not resized, hopefully this will help out more.

Oops they are still uploading
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I already saw all four pics but still could not tell what it is. Maybe someone else has one of those and will chime in.
 
That's what someone else said but it has a stony base. Does not move. It retracts into its base when disturbed. I thought it might be Chalice. But I have not ever seen chalice in person only those hyper photos on those online mail-order places so I don't know if it could be or not. As I said before it started off looking like a small plate coral attached to the rock.
This is what it looked like, but this one is in another tank and didn't survive.
(last image I just posted on www.verbridge.com)
This is the closest image to match that I could find:
http://www.liveaquaria.com/diversden/ItemDisplay.cfm?c=2733+8&ddid=66283
 
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It is deff a LPS. The last pic almost looks like a candy cane but the others deff not a candy cane. Does it have a mouth on it? I have never owned a chalice before but from the link it could very well be some kind of chalice. The pics are just too blury to really be able to tell.
 
The "mouths" look like small spots almost like a bunch of scattered eyes over the top fleshy surface.
It is in a 60-gallon with PC lighting (old bulbs ~over a year) and water quality could be a little higher.
Owners tend to over feed.
Needing more regular maintenance.
 
Anyone, anyone??? I already got an "I don't know", from a major online supplier.
Better camera/ better water quality = better photo.
 
I thought mushroom at first but as I kept going that changed. If it has a stony base that it retracts into then its an LPS. It looks like perhaps it has separate small corralites so I am kinda thinking maybe a galaxia.
 
It doesn't have "flowerettes" like a Galaxia. It has short tentacles.
It definitely is a LPS.

Not a soft coral, mushroom polyp.

I need to get my hands on a better camera!
 
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