2 Coral ID's

First two pictures I am guessing are either alien eye echinopora or hollywood stunner chalice, but I'm not sure. It's a fast grower, puts out 2" sweepers, and I have it placed in the top of my tank and it's been thriving





2nd is a small encrusting brownish/purple critter. It's been in my tank since day 1 as it hitch hiked on some live rock. It's a very slow grower, has very small (1-2mm) polyps that stick up like a shaved head. Only time they;ve been hurt is when I went out of town to FL for a week, my salinity jumped and they were damaged, but have made an awesome comeback.

It's a very very slow growing encrusting something?



This is the same creature, just on the front side of my rock versus the back, also there are probably 5-6 small encrusting colonies of whatever this organism is.

 

First one I'd say is the Alien Eye Enchinpora...I have the Tyree Enchinofire, which looks like the Alien Eye, but with orange rings around the eyes and orange tipped sweepers. I've never seen a Hollywood Stunner with eyes that extend as much. For the second...got me.

 

porties or psammocora

 

Leaning towards porties because they are not uncommon hitchhikers

 

+1 to FOD. I cant really see enough to ID anything in the second picture. But from your description of its polyps maybe its an encrusting montipora or a porites. Does it feel hard or soft to the touch?

 

Okay well touching things in my tank can be weird sometimes. For example I touched the rock right beside the ??? critter and it was slimey(due to slime coat in entire tank) then I touched the ??? critter and it was actually rougher than the rock that it's growing on.

Looks closer to this only most are the size of a dime, the largest is the size of a silver dollar and ofcourse they are not this pretty green color, they are more of a brownish purple. Also in this picture it almost looks like a mouth is in the center, mine do not have mouths.



FOD- Thanks for the Chalice ID. I really love this chalice, it's amazing growth, but yours sounds even hotter!

Also just read something called Encrusting Sandpaper? Lol, it may be something like that. Like I said it's a very slow growing SPS with no significant colors but I'm just wondering because it is definitely a living creature or creatures since there are multiples of them.

 

I bought a coral that looks almost the exact same, just a bit deeper green, and I was told it was a cactus coral. Im not 100 percent sure what it is, but it looks very similar to your encrusting sandpaper.

 

It's just a really slow growing organism that I've been meaning to get an ID on. Maybe I'll resurrect this thread when I get a real camera with a 50mm or 100mm lens so we all can get a much better view of what this thing is. I'm still not convinced we've identified what this creature is. It's weird that it's rougher than the live rock it's sitting on. Super small tenticles, primarily brown in color, slow growing, hardcore hitch hiker.

 

This is psammacora. You can find it in purple as well. If this is what your purple guy looks like, that's what you've got.

 

Ive got two different morphs. There are alot of different colors