can someone identify this for me?

[tampausmc]

just wondering what this stuff is......it came on my LR......seems to be spreading....survived my cycling process and everything.........

 

[slappy]

can you get a better pic?

 

[wax32]

Dunno, but I wouldn't lose sleep over it.

 

[fedukeford]

it almost looks like 2 little colonys of button polyps/zoos

 

[tampausmc]

maybe this is better

 

[tampausmc]

not losing sleep over it....just curious....cause it's spread to a few spots already

 

[wax32]

Kind of a weird picture, but it looks like it could be zoanthids.

 

[phoenixfla]

See if you can get them to close. Try touching top with finger.

 

[mrdc]

Look like zoos to me if I am looking at the right thing.

 

[oceana]

they look like zoas to me too, do they close when you blow water on them or touch them?

 

[tampausmc]

just an update if anyone cared.....
it is Siderastrea Radians (lesser starlet coral): tough to kill Caribbean species
says it tolerates extreme temperature fluctuations, still to pounding water movement, direct sunlight, rainfall, pollution, variable salinities, and all manner of light intensities.
The book that i found this in says if ever there was a beginners coral then this is it....almost invincible.....

 

[saltrookie]

I'm glad to know what it is because I have one of those on my live rock as well. I thought it was a little colony starting......bummer but, glad to know what it is.

 

[maryd]

Those are button polyps a zoo. they spread very nicely. I have some in several spots in my reef but I bought mine.

 

[tampausmc]

no they aren't button polyps....they actually dont fall into the zoanthid category at all.....actually part of the scleractinian family (stony corals)....i provided more of a description above in my last post on here.....