View Full Version : LPS ID please
msaba
01/24/2015, 08:15 AM
Purchased this LPS as a single polyp 2 years ago and has grown into a nice little colony, I believe it came from the Atlantic but that's all I can remember. I haven't seen a similar one since. Would appreciate any thoughts on ID. thanks
Mark
cloak
01/24/2015, 02:18 PM
Tubastrea of some sort?
msaba
01/24/2015, 04:24 PM
it doesn't have the hard skeleton of the tubastrea. The inside of each corallite is fluorescent green which is hard to see from the picture
cloak
01/24/2015, 04:40 PM
So the whole thing basically just feels like a rubber ball? Are you sure there's no skeleton at all?
cloak
01/24/2015, 04:54 PM
I just looked through some of my books and they had a picture of a Montastrea cavernosa that looked very similar. I did a search and came up with this. (link below) Pretty close...
http://www.arkive.org/great-star-coral/montastraea-cavernosa/
msaba
01/25/2015, 08:13 AM
Cloak--that is correct I'm sure--thanks so much!
Mark
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