Help ID this coral.

[rtirado]

Got this frag a little while ago and we werent really sure what exactly it was, I was thinking some sort of doughnut coral/scoly. What do you guys think?

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[lilrobb]

Hmmmm, chalice is my bet

 

[rtirado]

The outer skin is soft and puffy, at night it folds back from the center and lots of feelers come out around the eye.

 

[jennm]

Oxypora sp. aka Chalice.

 

[thanh386]

How puffy? Could be a single head of a lobo

 

[rtirado]

Thanh386;744623 wrote: How puffy? Could be a single head of a lobo

Very puffy, feels like the skin of a candy cane coral. Thats why I was thinking not so much on the chalice, it just looks like its jagged and rough which is weird.

Edit: I looked up lobophyllia, and it definitely looks like that.

 

[jennm]

Could be...

Hard to tell with small frags. Lobos don't have very long sweepers IME.

Jenn

 

[rtirado]

Yea they arent very long, about as long as the candy cane sweepers.

 

[jennm]

Ah, well then yeah, that's a possibility - Lobo.

Easier to tell when it grows out a bit.

Jenn

 

[hud3339]

Looks like a lobo

 

[thanh386]

If they are puffy and fleshy like a candy cane, has to be a lobo.

 

[rtirado]

Thanks for the help guys, I will just watch it grow and we'll see what happens

Couldnt find any pictures online of other lobo's with these same colors, so I'm interested to see how it turns out.