LPS ID Please

[atomicman]

This guy came on my live rock and I've always wondered what it is, never really run across it in my various wanderings. Anybody know what it is?

[Dragon Eye]

Is it soft and folds in any time?

It kind of looks like a mushroom or a GBTA??

[Boker420]

I'd say fungia

[atomicman]

The thing that got me curious about it again is I bumped it with a tool the other day and it went "clink" I always thought it was soft and squishy but it turns out it has a hard middle. In the picture it is fully extened (as much as I have seen) but when I bumped it it was completely hard (no tentacles sticking out, just ridges.

[Redwinger]

I'd say fungia


Yep that is my guess.

[atomicman]

I guess that is the best fit I've seen too.

All the pics I've seen of fungia, the animal is convex and free standing. This guy has a concave face, and he's attatched to the rock. If not for those two features, I would have just called it a fungia.

Thanks guys

[RaysReef]

I agree...it's a plate coral. If it ends up being a rhizo I have first dibs...lol

[atomicman]

If it ends up being a rhizo I have first dibs...

Noted.

[GoingPostal]

I'm guessing plate as well, babies are attached to rock and drop off as they grow, I have a similar one on the back of a brain coral skeleton, mine's green with purple.

[atomicman]

This guy is about 4yrs old and the size of a nickel. I don't know for sure but I think he's all grown up.

[wolmutt]

man, its so hard to know. there is so much life in the ocean its nuts:nuts: neat little thing though. If Capman ever comes on the boards he would probably be able to give you a more specific answer than any of us could.