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Mako
12-14-2008, 2:47 PM
I can't tell what this little fellow is. It was a freebie that had fallen to the bottom of the LFS frag tank.

It appears to be a bud off of a larger colony, not a healed-over chunk of a larger animal.

It has a hard calcium skeleton that looks like an inverted fungia skeleton--- concave/bowl shape rather than convex.

However, when the polyp has inflated, it does not look concave.

The last two pics are of it feeding on a scrap of shrimp.


Here's a few lousy pics, this is a difficult coral to photo.


http://i347.photobucket.com/albums/p460/redfishsc/wood%20pens/lps_mystery.jpg
http://i347.photobucket.com/albums/p460/redfishsc/wood%20pens/lps_mystery2.jpg




Pic of this thing feeding on a scrap of table shrimp.
http://i347.photobucket.com/albums/p460/redfishsc/wood%20pens/lps_mystery3.jpg
http://i347.photobucket.com/albums/p460/redfishsc/wood%20pens/lps_mystery4.jpg

got2envy
12-14-2008, 3:37 PM
looks like a baby plate of some kind..is it flat on the bottom?

Mako
12-14-2008, 6:09 PM
Actually I did figure it out. It's a Fungia fralinae

Amphiprion
12-14-2008, 11:43 PM
I'm not sure I'd narrow it down to the species level that easily, but it is definitely a Fungia anthocaulus.