unkown hard coral

[willember]

http://reefcentral.com/gallery/showphoto.php?photo=48605

Can anyone tell me what this is???
it is not quite an inch across.

thanks

[SeanT]

Check the first pic on this page.
Looks like it to me but you would be a better judge.
http://www.reefs.org/hhfaq/pages/main_pages/faq_rock1.htm

[rshimek]

[moved]

[MCsaxmaster]

It looks like a cup coral from the family Rhizangiidae. It looks to me like it is zooxanthellate, which would suggest the genus Astrangia, though I'm not at all confident in that identification. Maybe Eric will be able to add something.

As a side note: there are several genera of primarily azooxanthellate corals within this family. They are all pretty hard to distiguish, but all do quite well if reliabley fed. Interesting little things, to be sure.

Cheers,

-Chris

[willember]

Originally posted by SeanT
Check the first pic on this page.
Looks like it to me but you would be a better judge.
http://www.reefs.org/hhfaq/pages/main_pages/faq_rock1.htm

no, it is a hard coral. It looks like a tiny fungia, except it is attached to the rock.

[willember]

could be this
http://www.sms.si.edu/irlspec/Phyllan_americ.htm

[13fishfan]

Don't have a clue what it is,,, But thought I'd pin your pic to this post.

JaFa



http://reefcentral.com/gallery/data/500/51437somecoral.jpg

[d4a2n0k]

I dont know what it is but the same thing just appeared recently on the side of my hammer coral. Its a hard base with small tentacles, probably the same size as a dime. Almost looks like a mini plate coral.

[The REAL S.Dawg]

Pagoda cup coral start life out as a single polyp with a stoney hard base. Could be it is a baby pagoda cup. To be honest it looks alot like a curly cue anemone to me. Could also be a baby sun polyp. The hard base thing is throwing me a nit.

[willember]

just thought I'd throw in this little update. the above coral has grown into this. It only took 3 years... It eventually dropped of the rock.

http://reefcentral.com/gallery/data/500/51437DSC08709.JPG

[Gary Majchrzak]

kewl! :thumbsup:

[billsreef]

<a href=showthread.php?s=&postid=11099985#post11099985 target=_blank>Originally posted</a> by Gary Majchrzak
kewl! :thumbsup:

Double kewl!

[SDguy]

Wow, holy 3 year update Batman!

[mkbtank]

Wow. Great update!! I notice your tank size has grown as well! Amazing how that seems to happen :)

[willember]

yeah, what was my reef tank when I notion the little hitchhiker is now my top off reservoir. I think we hit a platue on tank size for now though. Going from 90 to 150 or so doesn't seem worth it. And going to 200+ is not cheap.

[Tank102a]

That solved the mistery. ( 3 yrs)