Please help identify this coral

[mwoo]

Hello. I'm new this forum. I wish I had found this forum much sooner but found it by looking to try and identify this coral I obtain from a local fish store. (They weren't sure what it was also...and I haven't gone back.) I've had it for about 9 to 10 months now. Any help would be greatfull.
http://picasaweb.google.com/mwoo.sj/SaltWaterTank?feat=directlink#5303486207461180882

 

[daugherty]

cant see any pic

 

[mwoo]

cant see any pic

Sorry, couldn't figure how to get the photo to show so I changed it to a link. Thank you.

 

[daugherty]

i am not shure what it is. i have a few thing on my mind but i know they are wrong.

 

[JAG107]

some kind of LPS, I don't know exactly what. Very nice coral though.

 

[dustin_P74]

i cant pin point it either, its an LPS but which one i dont know. i was thinking hammer torch or frogspawn but i dont think those are it

 

[bigploch]

Here is the pic. Just go to picasa and click on the image. When it opens to the larger one, right click on it and click View Image. When it comes up copy the URL of the image file and click on the button in the Quick Reply area on this page that looks like a mountain and a sun. When it opens paste the URL one the area that says http://.

I am thinking goniopora. Never seen a white one but there's a lot I ain't seen.

Here is a red one.

 

[yote]

Looks like a frogspawn to me.But thats just a guess.

 

[bigploch]

I thought that too yote but the tentacles seetm very small. the tentacles on my frogspawn are much larger. It's hard to determine scale in the pic though. the goni seems to have smaller tentacles.

 

[dustin_P74]

the identical on this coral look different from the polyps of a gonipora

 

[Bifferwine]

Goniopora polyps look like flowers, with petals. It's definitely not a goniopora.

It is a grape coral. Congrats. They are hard to find in stores.

http://lh3.ggpht.com/_b6Zqy9uASsk/Rm28SCH5AWI/AAAAAAAABWc/2BF9Q3OrIr4/IMG_0320.JPG

 

[JAG107]

euphyllia cristata maybe, Biff?

 

[Bifferwine]

That would be the one.

There is a similar coral related to the bubble coral also sometimes referred to as a pearl or grape coral, but that one is totally different (Plerogyra). The one you have is definitely a Euphylia, which is why it looks like a mini-frogspawn.

 

[mwoo]

Thank you everyone. This really helps. The fish store did say it was rare but didn't know what it was called. Much appreciated!