Is this a leather coral?

[er..md]

This guy appeared in my xenia last week...it looks like a leather coral to me, can anybody confirm? thanks

 

[dragonzim]

Not sure what it is, but it definitely is cool looking!

 

[perfectdark]

Pagoda Cup Coral, Turbinaria peltata.. Nice find..

 

[er..md]

thanks...he appears to be growing fairly fast

 

[perfectdark]

Originally Posted by ER..MD
thanks...he appears to be growing fairly fast

Either that or he closes up to almost nothing, and then appears big when the lights come on. Somtimes hitchiker corals all of a sudden pop up out of no where and they look like they grew over night. Until you notice them and start to observe them. Then for some reason their growth slows..LOL.

 

[albfishin']

Looks cool, but its hard to tell. It has individual polyps and the interesting thing is that each polyp has eight feeding tentacles (from what I can count). It definately looks like an octocoral which puts it in the leather family. Again, cool find!

 

[petjunkie]

Looks like a little toadstool maybe.

 

[big]

Looks to me like a Pagoda Cup too!

 

[mscarpena]

I agree leather coral

 

[sign guy]

I dont know my corals that well but dosent it look like it belongs in the same family as gonapora

 

[patandlace]

Looks like a pagoda cup to me. Nice one.

 

[jesses89]

pagodas polyps are almost flat.. dont reach out like that...
so i agree with sign guy..
Looks more like gonapora to me.

 

[peef]

I have a pagoda cup and mine looks NOTHING like that (although I wish it did) Not personally sure what it is but I don't think Pagoda.... This looks like it has a stock as its raised above the xenia and not a plate/skeleton. But that is just MO

 

[perfectdark]

the only thing that throws me about it not being a goniopora is that it doesnt have the right skeletol base that most of them have.

 

[perfectdark]

And IMO this one looks alot more like the picture..
And its a pagoda...