Need a ID please.

[Scoobs9083]

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http://thefirstfallenangel.com/goatlegs/id.jpg

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http://thefirstfallenangel.com/goatlegs/9.jpg


Thanks!

[Tang Salad]

Moon coral, I think.

[Scoobs9083]

This is a hitch hiker.. been really hard to get a ID on it.

[Tang Salad]

Wow! That's a great hitchhiker. :)

How long have you had it? It will appreciate bright light, but may need to be acclimated to it first. Someone will come along with a positive ID soon.

[Frick-n-Frags]

see, that helps. the skeleton is nowhere nearly jaggedy enough to be galaxia.

new guess: Siderastrea siderea, especially since you say it is a hitcher.

(and I'm thinking the relative size is skewed because of that awesome macro shot - I'm guessing that coral has only couple mm polyps there, nowhere near the size of Galaxia polyps because the picture makes it look huge)

[Paintbug]

im thinking Solenastrea sp.
http://www2.aims.gov.au/coralsearch/html/701-800/Species%20pages/704.htm

[Scoobs9083]

This is a hitch hiker but its odd.. it just showed up out of no where after my tank had been up and running 3mo or so.. It was just on little polyp back then.. now its about the side of a 50 cent piece and has 20 to 30 polyps.. Some of the skeleton I had to crop the halides make everything so bright sometimes it just looks white in a picture lol..

[Scoobs9083]

<a href=showthread.php?s=&postid=9932694#post9932694 target=_blank>Originally posted</a> by Paintbug
im thinking Solenastrea sp.
http://www2.aims.gov.au/coralsearch/html/701-800/Species%20pages/704.htm

Hmm.. I have to admit the skeleton structure looks a lot alike.

[Scoobs9083]

Solenastrea sp. have a common name?

[Scoobs9083]

bump

[Frick-n-Frags]

odds are, IF it is even atlantic origin, that it is one of 3 very common encrusting Siderastrea species vs a less common similar looking Solenastrea species.

Also, when you are getting down into the minute details of the corallite geometry, this is labwork, so nailing it exactly will be tough from a couple pics on the web

a good identifier may be after you have had it for a while and it starts taking its full colony shape. If it is starting to branch, it very well may be Soleastrea, but the odds are it will encrust = Siderastrea.

I had some Siderastrea sp as a hitcher. it started as a flourescent green speck when only the actinics were on and it was fuzzy brown during full light, kind of greenish-pinkish-tan when shut down in full light but very flourescent under only actinics.

one more thing: the origin of this rock

If Hitcher=Pacific origin Then
Reset thread and start over
Else proceed.....
End If
:D

[Scoobs9083]

Fiji

[Scoobs9083]

Fiji is in the Pacific I think :P