ID..Blasto / Brain Coral?

[don1234]

Got this from LFS a few days ago they werent sure exactly what it is. It came from one of their coral tanks.
Rock in the middle with the green on it..to the right of the Zoos

 

[mr_x]

it looks like favia. got a closer pic?

 

[don1234]

Here it is resized just couldn't get a good picture

 

[rebelprettyboy]

n a way it looks like it could be blastos

 

[mr_x]

it's not merletti. blasto merletti doesn't grow like that. it's skeleton is a bunch of tubes connected together at a base. it's not a wellsi. wellsi have much larger polyps, and the skeleton is raised up off of the base. that looks like platygyra or favia.

 

[don1234]

I looked up platygyra and i did see a few pictures that kind of resembled my coral....but I looked at it with a magnifying glass and it appears to have tentacles around each polyp....does that make any difference in helping to identify.

 

[mr_x]

well..they have tentacles that come out when it's feeding time, but not during the rest of the day. how about another pic?

 

[zanoshanox]

To me it looks like favia with only like 10% of that skeleton being living tissue.

 

[don1234]

The only part on that rock that is alive..that I can see is the lower left hand side (10%)
I'm going to try to get another picture! The specimen also kind of protrudes upward and outwards from the rock...its not hard because when the current hits it...it kind of pulsates like if it were breathing in and out?

 

[grue]

I think these are blasto merletti