Can anyone help with a coral ID

[Seaweed88]

I don't know if this will help but this is about 1/8th of a bigger coral that a friend had. He sold me this piece and then he lost the rest. That is how I had the skeleton piece. The whole coral looked like the piece here. The polyps ran in rows as it does here.

[biowheel]

How about this !!
http://www.vividaquariums.com/10Expa...ode=02-1660-10

[Seaweed88]

I don't know if this help but I believe this came in box from Bali.

[Elegance Coral]

Originally Posted by biowheel

How about this !!
http://www.vividaquariums.com/10Expa...ode=02-1660-10

Nope. Sorry. That's not it. Long tentacled plate corals have one central mouth. Their skeleton is one flat disk with rows of septa that radiate out from the center like spokes in a wheel.

[Elegance Coral]

Originally Posted by Seaweed88

I don't know if this will help but this is about 1/8th of a bigger coral that a friend had. He sold me this piece and then he lost the rest. That is how I had the skeleton piece. The whole coral looked like the piece here. The polyps ran in rows as it does here.

Large Elegance can grow in rows like that but the skeleton doesn't have different compartments like yours. I'm completely lost.

[Seaweed88]

Thanks for trying! These polyps appear to be around 3/16 in length. When the lights go out the polyps go also.

[biowheel]

I'll keep looking

[Elegance Coral]

I hate to ask for one more pic, but can you get a pic with the polyp retracted? I think it may be a type of brain coral.

[Seaweed88]

I will try tomorrow, I left the camera at work. Thanks again!!

[Seaweed88]

Here are more pictures of this coral. One is at night with the polyps retracted. The other two are from a different angle. I hope this helps.

[biowheel]

Great shots . Looks like it's coming around too .

[Elegance Coral]

That's a frag from a maze brain coral. The exact species will be very hard to nail down. There are a gazillion very similar species. IIWY, I'd start feeding it. It would have a field day with some small pieces of krill or mysis shrimp.

[Seaweed88]

The first picture is the one taken in the dark. There are no sweepers in that picture. I had just target feed Reef roids and mysis soaked in selcon. The other two pictures are from this morning after the lights had come on. Do you really think this is a brain?

[biowheel]

Originally Posted by Elegance Coral

That's a frag from a maze brain coral. The exact species will be very hard to nail down. There are a gazillion very similar species. IIWY, I'd start feeding it. It would have a field day with some small pieces of krill or mysis shrimp.

I knew you'd find it . Nice going EC !!

[Elegance Coral]

The picture with the polyp retracted pretty much nails the ID as a brain coral. Not all species of brain coral produce sweepers. The meaty brains like yours, trashys, and rose corals typically don't have sweepers. It's the smaller polyped closed brains that typically produce sweepers.

Do a search for "Manicina areolata" and click on images. I don't believe this is the same identical species, but they are kin folk.