LFS can't tell me what this SPS is...can you?

[noshoes]

I picked up this frag in Fountain Valley's Tongs for $10.00, surprisingly they could not tell me what it was. It's encrusting, green w/purple mouths and is open during daytime.

Any help would be very cool.

http://i130.photobucket.com/albums/p252/X_noshoes_X/encrusting_02.jpg

[moo0o]

look like some sorta zoanthid to me.

[noshoes]

No, I'm positive it's not a Zooanthid.

[basser1]

Maybe a Duncan? :rolleyes:

[drouner]

It's not a duncan. Can it be a LPS of some kind? Maybe I'm looking at the pix wrong but the polyps look pretty big and not like a SPS.

Does it put out sweepers?

just from the pix it looks like a galaxea.

[Polyptician]

If the polyps are the size of a small zoanthid, and its a stoney coral, my guess its a type of lepastrea (brain)

Nice looking

[sjfishguy]

Hard to tell because we can't get a sense of the size of the polyps, but galaxea is the first thing I thought it was.

[mott768]

it's a Flower Pot Coral (Goniopora)

[RobsReefs]

what ever it is its a keeper. lol

[brandon7491]

can we get a better shot of it?

[A.T.T.R]

its a gonipora 24 tentacles on each polyp

[Reefer Steve]

<a href=showthread.php?s=&postid=12914073#post12914073 target=_blank>Originally posted</a> by Polyptician
If the polyps are the size of a small zoanthid, and its a stoney coral, my guess its a type of lepastrea (brain)

Nice looking

agreed

[noshoes]

I dont think it's a Goniopora because it does not extend at all. Typically Flower pots reach out quite a ways. It's polyps are to big to be a galaxea.

So far I think Polyptician is the closest. See below link(but even they arent sure).
http://www.justphish.com/product_info.php?cPath=296&products_id=2827&osCsid=4d77b60a4511c14c07b165decb4e73af

This Oxy is around 9"-10" in diameter.
http://i130.photobucket.com/albums/p252/X_noshoes_X/encrustin_4X6_02.jpg
Full frame.
http://i130.photobucket.com/albums/p252/X_noshoes_X/encrustin_4X6_01.jpg

[Reefun]

it would help to have a pic when it is closed. So we can see the skeleton.

[ejocam]

I think it's possibly a Lepthastrea

[oceanparadise1]

Its not an sps thats for sure, im guesssing it 100% a LPS

[brandon7491]

looks like a type of blastomussa

[ct_vol]

<a href=showthread.php?s=&postid=12916368#post12916368 target=_blank>Originally posted</a> by ejocam
I think it's possibly a Lepthastrea

Ditto... :)

[juniormc8704]

looks cool...

[mott768]

Here's a link with a pic of flower pot coral. reefun is right it would help a lot to see a pic of it closed

http://www.liveaquaria.com/product/prod_display.cfm?c=597+321+466&pcatid=466

[ct_vol]

And heres a pic of a Leptastrea... You can see they are one and the same...

http://www.geocities.com/jerinabojan/Galerija1_files/Leptastrea.JPG

Here's a link to some other color morphs...

http://www.reefcentral.com/forums/showthread.php?s=&threadid=1370676&highlight=leptastrea

You might consider posting this in the LPS forum...

[noshoes]

That's it, ct_vol nailed it. I'm sure now.

That's a wrap.