id coral

[RMX]

can anyone id this coral? the coral is hard and has small mouths in between the ridges/valley

[Morgan]

Looks like a brain coral from the family of lobophyllia or trachyphyllia.

The colour look bleached. Increase your lighting intensity. This coral needs to be feed with shrimps or fish meat.

[RMX]

the brown color seems to be melting onto the sand. how do i feed it with shrimp? the mouth so small and usually closed.

[robe]

Looks like a heavily bleached trachyphylla geoffrei brain coral. Acclimatise slowly to the light as it might get shocked and die. It probably been left too long in the dealers tank without enough lighting.

[Morgan]

You can try feeding the coral by putting a small shrimps (mysis) into the valley. The coral will expand and the mouth will move to where the shrimp is and swallow it.

In good condition, this coral will expand its feeding tentacles after light out.

It can also sense food in the water and expand its tentacles in the day.

[tigershark]

extreme strong light would cause the same problem......

[B|uEc@rpEt]

Some algae can been seen growing over it.

[Tanzy]

It looks like a Trachyphyllia radiata. On the sand is a good place for it. Like everyone else says, it is bleached. High light levels now will only harm it more. What it needs now is lots of feeding, preferably prawns or squid everyday until it can adapt and restablish the zooxanthellae population within the polyp.

[hongqixian]

Isn't it silly to try to ID the exact species when

The identification cannot be confirmed without someone actually checking the skeleton and such,

It has no use whatsoever but to make us feel important

The trachyphyllias most have the same requirements?

Mysis for thought <_<

[Tanzy]

Certain corals are pretty obvious without requiring examination of skeleton to determine species. SPS on the other hand is a different story, sometimes it is hard to differentiate porties and montipora! Hardest LPS to differentiate is Faviidae family.

[RMX]

currently, im using 36w PL, 15w FL both 10kk and 15w actinic. also im feeding phytoplex and coralaccess once every 2 days. isit good enough to help it recover?

[Tanzy]

This coral requires fleshy food placed directly on the polyp or near the mouth. It won't eat what you are feeding the tank. Try peeled prawns or any seafood.