Old ID changed its look.

Several weeks back I posted this first pic, but really didn't get a sure ID, anyways! I looked at this same thing today and this is what it looked like, their is now polyps their that use to look like disk and the polyps is a lime green color and look exactly the same as the polyps on my try-color, what in the world?

 

OK! this thing is really strange, look at the 1st pic and you will see the red/brown colored polyps with the green disk center, those other fingers are still thieir along with the green ones, basically it looks like a polyp inside a polyp the lower red/brown polyp and the the upper green ones, crazy man.

 

If it has a stony skeleton than dendrophyllia.
If not then compare majano against zoanthids.
The fact that one image is completely shaded has me guessing.
A dendro will grow slowly, majano will spread at fairly quick pace, but prefer direct lighting unlike a dendro which will grow in shaded areas.

 

Hey Corailline, for sure thier not majano and in that first pic i thought some kind of zoanthids, but then they way they look now, those polyps look for like something you find on a SPS coral, it is a small colony of about 8 animals, that rubble thier on use to by an SPS, maybe a birdsnest. their so small, but i'll try to get a better pic.

 

Might be a hidden cup coral?

 

how are you sure its not a majano?

 

I had majanos, until I added 2 peppermint shrimp, I never seen majanos with an extended polyp like that. I really need better pics. if you all could see what I see with my magnifying glass, Iam 100% certain their not majanos, the hidden cup coral looked very close to these, but the thing is no stony skeleton that I have seen, its more like a mat.

 

I'm going to move that rock and get the animal in question closer to the glass and get a better angle for another pic, I never seen anything like this.

 

I think we have a winner.

OK! sorry my mistake, I did move the rock, I touched the animal by accident moving it, so it really retracted, I think 2in10 hit it, it does have a skeleton. This tiny little Coral is so cool, if you look at the pic, you will see the green dot in the middle of some darker color, iwhen extended, the outside is like redish/brown tenticles, with the green polyp coming out of the middle as seen in #2 pic above. very pretty little Coral.

 

Yup I also believe John is right.

Here I thought Hidden Cup (phyllangia americana), was a Dendophyllia. Nope learn something new every day.