Please help ID this coral!

[jcmjoe]

I posted this in the soft coral section as well. I picked this up at my local fish store. It was a 10 dollar coral. The manager there said it was an SPS coral but it almost looks like a type of hairy mushroom? Any ideas?

[wrott]

Looks similar to:
https://www.liveaquaria.com/product/675/colony-polyp-yellow?pcatid=675&c=597+599+675

[Oldreeferman]

Looks to possibly be metalic orange Stylocoenelia encrusting coral to me, or a different color maybe.

[jcmjoe]

Thanks guys!

[ThePurple12]

I'm 95% sure that's not SPS. Can you take a picture with the polyps retracted? Kind of looks like green star polyps to me :hmm2:

[wrott]

Could be a retracted Goni:
https://www.liveaquaria.com/product/prod_display.cfm?c=597+321+7328&pcatid=7328

[Sugar Magnolia]

Could also be briarium, brown star polyps.

[wrott]

That sounds right Adrienne, I forget they come in other colors besides green!

[jcmjoe]

sorry for the delayed response. I had some Well issues at my house I had to deal with! Here are some pictures of the coral closed. These are the best I could do. 409839

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[Timfish]

Looks like a gold Leptastia (https://duckduckgo.com/?t=ffab&q=leptrastia+coral+for+sale&atb=v153-1&iax=images&ia=images) to me.

[jcmjoe]

Looks to possibly be metalic orange Stylocoenelia encrusting coral to me, or a different color maybe.

You are exactly right, after lots of looking I think you nailed it. Thank you so much!