I.D. help on coral

[nygel]

I got this a while back, its opened up a little more than before, it was in a 'nano coral' tank, i thought it was kinda cool, so i bought it.... its got tiny tiny tiny tentacles and its not hard or soft to the touch.. kinda in between. If i need more pics, i've got a few more, these just seemed best.

 

[tangs123]

maybe some type of glove polys?

 

[stuckinfla]

Do they close up? Sorta look like hidden cup coral.

 

[nygel]

yea, they close up. I did a quick image search of those and they don't seem to be it i dont believe. Here's another pic.

 

[viper_930]

Looks like a galaxea.

 

[nygel]

i thought it was galaxea for a while, but then after reading some stuff abotu them it didnt seem to fit. Though i'm going to consider it galaxea now

 

[steve24]

just wondering if they could be Blasto`s (merleti) ???

 

[ant11899]

I don't think that is galaxea. Could be though. It doesn't look anything like mine. Does it get sweeper tentacles? Mine gets sweepers up to 10+ inches long that I've seen. And galaxea also has a VERY brittle skeleton. When it's closed up it sort of looks like teeth. Sound familiar at all?

 

[nygel]

yea, it looks like a mishapen galaxea to me, i was told it probably was, but the sweeper tentacles are the only thing that make me think it's not a galaxea. When closed up it does have a teeth appearance, its in the sand becuz the bottom skeleton (i guess) is a little bigger then whats showing.

 

[viper_930]

What's different about the sweepers?

 

[nygel]

they lack existence as far as i know