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FtwayneFish

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Is the purple coral in the middle.
Its hard and spiky.
It gets soft and flubby like a candy cane coral.

Looks purple and clear ice like. Has to be fragged with wire cutters.

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Glad someone has seen it. I think its rare. Anyone else wanna 2nd it?
 

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Whatever it is, it is very recessed. Fungia would be my first guess, but it could be something related like a scolymia. Have to see a better pic, one with it inflated so we can see the tentacles.
 

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It is really mad in the pic lol. My pal had just fragged it for me. Its soo cool when its all jelly like inflated. Are they a rare coral? I dont know a thing about the scoley?
 

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Fragged it? Doesn't look like a frag. I thought things like fungias the only way to frag them is to cut them in half/quarters making sure to get a piece of the mouth on each frag. The normal way they spread is they just pop out babies, mini versions of themselves. Actually seen that more often than I have seen people fragging them since they are one of the more difficult corals to frag successfully.
 

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I hope all goes well then. He just cut the side off. It was in a rectangular shape. I think I see mouths on it. Lil eyes like the center of a zoo. Its kinda got bubbly'er. My buddy said it would take a couple days.

He had it on the gravel in a 20gL with 150w MH phoenix 14k. Im running 40w PC. This sat im getting a like new (4month old phoenix 14k bulb) Coralife 150w pendant.
 

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I will have to agree then with Amphiprion. It is a Halomitra, which is similar to a fungia, but not the same. Hopefully Amphiprion can chime in and say if the manner it was fragged was ok.

I can say I have never seen one of those before, and even google comes up with very limited information on them, so I would guess it is semi-rare at least.

Edit: From this picture it does appear to have multiple mouths..
 
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