My new unknown coral (ID please?)

[d34532]

Hi all,

Just wanted to share these pictures and get an ID if I can.

Side view 1

side view 2

Top View

Hehehe Maybe I should name it Lam's lemonade *coral id* hahaha

 

[Jessy]

very interesting. Do the tenticles stay out all the time like an anem? Or do they tuck in like an acan? Can there be such a thing as an anem leather? If so that's what you got.

 

[d34532]

Its always out and it eats mysis. I think its in the dendro like at less that is the reason why I picked it up since I like dendro and duncans. The only different is that it looks like it grows into a round skeleton body. Also from the top view it looks to me as if split and not bud off the side like dendro or duncan. The body is hard.

 

[saltyreefguy]

dendro?

 

[adam1121]

It looks like a dendro to me too cause it looks like it has two seperate heads in that last pic and thats how dendros usually are.

 

[d34532]

Im almost 100% sure its a Heteropsammia Cochlea in the Dendrophylliidae Family. http://www2.aims.gov.au/coralsearch/html/201-300/Species pages/214.htm

I picked this coral up at Eye Candy Aquaruims in Garden Grove. Check with Allen if your interested I do not sure if I'll be fragging this coral until I see how they grow.

 

[Mark82]

Good ID Lam

 

[sps_addict]

Yup lam, it looks like a Heteropsammia Cochlea.