Unknown coral

[mightymikeupser]

Anyone know what this is?

 

[Coralobsessed]

Looks like a sponge

 

[brian cummings]

Not a sponge

 

[evolved]

I see little tenticles which make me think it might be a ball anemone of sorts.

Else, I'm thinking a baby plate coral, but the "spots" aren't consistent with that.

 

[mightymikeupser]

Yea it looks like a small plate coral but the spots are weird. I fed it and it eats just like my other plate coral. Will be neat color if it gets big.

 

[Reef-o-Roni]

Maybe a fungi

 

[Frick]

It looks like the small start of some hard coral but with out seeing the skeleton, and judging by it size there are a lot of possibilities. Where did it come from, the rock that is was found on?

I see an air bubble in it, which is common of an LPS coral that is getting too much light too fast. Maybe put it in the shade.

 

[mightymikeupser]

Hey Jason I didn't know that air bubbles form in excess light. Does that happen often? First time that I know in my tank.

 

[Iphis]

I'm totally not an expert by any means with coral, but that looks a lot like ones I have in my tank that internet searches seem to call "Cup Coral" The ones I have a clear with little white spots in their tentacles that the research I have done is called specifically a "hidden cup coral", but yours has way more color than mine.

I always target feed them and they eat, a lot of them are right out of the light (some of them under rocks with only their tentacles getting out in the light) and they seem perfectly fine. I've had many of them for about six or so years, came in on live rock from Florida.

Sorry if it doesn't help any.

 

[ortie001]

I'm totally not an expert by any means with coral, but that looks a lot like ones I have in my tank that internet searches seem to call "Cup Coral" The ones I have a clear with little white spots in their tentacles that the research I have done is called specifically a "hidden cup coral", but yours has way more color than mine.

I always target feed them and they eat, a lot of them are right out of the light (some of them under rocks with only their tentacles getting out in the light) and they seem perfectly fine. I've had many of them for about six or so years, came in on live rock from Florida.

Sorry if it doesn't help any.

This is what I was thinking, but I am in no way an expert either so I didn't want to be the first one to say it. I have some that look the same and came in on my Florida rock as well.

 

[Frick]

Hey Jason I didn't know that air bubbles form in excess light. Does that happen often? First time that I know in my tank.

It only happen when the zooxanthellae algae produces too much gas from the lighting because of a sudden higher change in the intensity. It builds up and collects before it can escape. It happens to plate type corals often.

This is what I was thinking, but I am in no way an expert either so I didn't want to be the first one to say it. I have some that look the same and came in on my Florida rock as well.

Did this rock come from Florida? Because it does look like a tube like hard coral that would grow on those rocks.
http://coral.aims.gov.au/factsheet.jsp?speciesCode=0917
http://coral.aims.gov.au/factsheet.jsp?speciesCode=0704
http://coral.aims.gov.au/factsheet.jsp?speciesCode=0577