ID Help Please

[john_ob]

Popped up out of nowhere on live rock underneath hammer corals. It has green in the center and orange/red around the outside. The edges gently sway in the flow sort of like what you would see with a mushroom. Sorry I can't seem to get any better pics as it's very small, but here's what I have under whites and blues. Thank you in advance!

 

[BryanM]

Dunno, following along.

 

[quin]

It looks like some sort of mushroom

 

[john_ob]

It looks like some sort of mushroom

I don't think it's a mushroom. Look more anemone-like, or some other type of soft coral.

 

[Gumbies R Us]

@ISpeakForTheSeas

@EeyoreIsMySpiritAnimal wasn’t this the kind of coral you identified in me and my wife’s tank?

 

[AlyciaMarie]

A clearer picture may be needed for a positive ID.

@ISpeakForTheSeas

@EeyoreIsMySpiritAnimal wasn’t this the kind of coral you identified in me and my wife’s tank?

It does look similar, but I don't think our hidden cup coral has color on it. Whatever this is, it looks to have some color under blue light in the first picture. Can hidden cup corals have color to them?

 

[Tahoe61]

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Could be a type of Cup Coral, an LPS hitchhiker.

 

[john_ob]

A clearer picture may be needed for a positive ID.

It does look similar, but I don't think our hidden cup coral has color on it. Whatever this is, it looks to have some color under blue light in the first picture. Can hidden cup corals have color to them?

Sorry about the quality, this is the clearest pic I can get due to only having a phone as a camera, along with the size and location of the object in question. It could be cup coral, although I have cup coral in my tank in other locations and this definitely looks different due to the orange and green color on this piece. The other cup coral I have are all red.

 

[EeyoreIsMySpiritAnimal]

@ISpeakForTheSeas

@EeyoreIsMySpiritAnimal wasn’t this the kind of coral you identified in me and my wife’s tank?

I don't remember... what did I tell you yours was? Lol

 

[kyreefville]

kinda cool looking

 

[ISpeakForTheSeas]

Looks like it has little ball-shaped tips on the tentacles, and it looks like the tentacles are speckled and transparent, so that would indicate a coral to me. Lots of LPS corals have those characteristics, so I'd guess one of those (it'll likely have a skeleton hidden in there somewhere).

Unfortunately, coral ID is a weak point of mine at the moment, so I'm not sure what kind it is.

 

[john_ob]

Thanks for all the replies. Im just going to let it grow where it’s at. It’’s not harming anything, so hopefully it grows to a point where it becomes identifiable.

 

[jacksonmaurer]

Popped up out of nowhere on live rock underneath hammer corals. It has green in the center and orange/red around the outside. The edges gently sway in the flow sort of like what you would see with a mushroom. Sorry I can't seem to get any better pics as it's very small, but here's what I have under whites and blues. Thank you in advance!

looks like a palythoa to me