Hard Coral ID anyone?

[KingFish]

Had this piece for a month or so.

Small corallites of about 5mm, tightly packed in a random array.

Skeleton between the corallites are visible throughout the day.

Placed directly 6 inches away from 150w of T5s.

What you see is what you get ... no actinics.

I do not believe its Gorniopora or Porites.

[kee]

wah nice.. hahaa.. very chim qus.... ask AT or morgan haha

[DeepBlue]

I think it is a Favites sp. aka moon coral. usually round in shape...

[jd_n]

mooncoral

[Achilles Tang]

Encrusting? Can you take a photo to scale with something?

Looks like a Siderastrea radians.

[KingFish]

I have a golfball size moon coral attached to the same rock as my Blastomussa.

[KingFish]

Have not notice if its started encrusting yet.

Leptastrea Pruinosa is as close as I can get.

[Achilles Tang]

Sure is a hard coral to ID!

Maybe I'll consult my Veron book instead of making a guess. But I'm gonna be thumbing though a whole of similar looking corals and STILL making a guess!

Say... do me a favour.... bleach the coral and get a close up of the skeleton corallite! Makes IDing much easier!

[Terryz_]

Look like moon coral..

[Achilles Tang]

Terryz,

The septa and corallites are quite different from Diploastrea and Favia.

[Tanzy]

Not a Faviid for sure. Something closer to a Mussiid.

[Terryz_]

hmm... New species of coral...

[Achilles Tang]

Could be a Leptastrea bewickensis or Leptastrea pruinosa.

It's definitely in the Leptastrea family.

Characters: Colonies are massive, flat or hillocky.

Septa are in unequal cycles with approximately six widely spaced exsert primary septa plunging down to a small columella.

[marinebetta]

Say... do me a favour.... bleach the coral and get a close up of the skeleton corallite! Makes IDing much easier!

I agree.....frag a piece offf and dump it in some bleach...then get back to us

[Terryz_]

It is Leptastrea pruinosa... FOund it on net... Oops.. the same... sorry...

[flubberina13]

It is Leptastrea pruinosa...  FOund it on net... Oops.. the same... sorry...

Dun read between the lines...Dun read between the lines...

Btw...your avatar quite cool...yours?

[Terryz_]

No... Not mine... mine where got so nice one... but saw it at LCK2** before..

[Terryz_]

Same???

[KingFish]

I'd frag it if I could, it comes on a densely heavy rock.

There are some spot where its bleached, will try to take a picture of that.

Perhaps I'll also take a picture right after the lights come on, maybe then we can get a close look at it.