What kind of beautiful nightmare is this?

beef1582 · 02/15/2019, 12:14 PM

Can anyone help identify this? It recently popped up in my tank and I have no idea. Can't find anything like it online, but to me it looks like some sort of polyp. I just can't get a good angle to see the base of it. Green with dark stripes from center, and little 'thorns' all over. I appreciate the help!

Daddi0 · 02/15/2019, 12:17 PM

Looks like a little plate coral?
Cheers! Mark

justjes45 · 02/15/2019, 12:18 PM

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Originally Posted by beef1582

Can anyone help identify this? It recently popped up in my tank and I have no idea. Can't find anything like it online, but to me it looks like some sort of polyp. I just can't get a good angle to see the base of it. Green with dark stripes from center, and little 'thorns' all over. I appreciate the help!

Following along! Super neat!
I don’t think aptisia?
Maybe small anemone?

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beef1582 · 02/15/2019, 12:25 PM

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Originally Posted by Daddi0

Looks like a little plate coral?
Cheers! Mark

I thought that may be a possibility, it's fairly translucent under the flashlight. Thanks!

Daddi0 · 02/15/2019, 01:29 PM

We had one grow on a rock. After a while it let loose of the rock and sank to the sandbed to live. Now there is a new tiny baby sprouting from the exact spot on the rock that the plate coral released from.

beef1582 · 02/15/2019, 07:17 PM

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Originally Posted by Daddi0

We had one grow on a rock. After a while it let loose of the rock and sank to the sandbed to live. Now there is a new tiny baby sprouting from the exact spot on the rock that the plate coral released from.

That's interesting. I hope I'm there shortly after if that happens, otherwise my engineer will bury the little pup!

Daddi0 · 02/15/2019, 07:38 PM

Here is a pic. of our plate and in the second pic. you can see a green spot where the new one is growing. After the coral popped off the rock, my son tossed it into his eel tank (hence all of the aiptasia). Looks like I am going to have to steal the rock from him

02/15/2019, 12:17 PM	#2
Daddi0 Registered Member Join Date: Sep 2017 Location: Redwood City Posts: 1,354	Looks like a little plate coral? Cheers! Mark __________________ 2x 65g displays with a 30g cryptic refugium and 30g sump - 55g reef 30g Bio-cube reef - I.M. 30g reef - 45g freshwater

02/15/2019, 01:29 PM	#5
Daddi0 Registered Member Join Date: Sep 2017 Location: Redwood City Posts: 1,354	We had one grow on a rock. After a while it let loose of the rock and sank to the sandbed to live. Now there is a new tiny baby sprouting from the exact spot on the rock that the plate coral released from. __________________ 2x 65g displays with a 30g cryptic refugium and 30g sump - 55g reef 30g Bio-cube reef - I.M. 30g reef - 45g freshwater