Can you identify this coral?

[MacGyver]

This guy started growing about 4 months after I added live rock to my tank. He tripled in size in about 4 months. Any idea on what type of coral it is. Each little hole contains what looks to be a little polyp.

http://communities.msn.com/SaltwaterStuff/shoebox.msnw?action=ShowPhoto&PhotoID=2

 

[Katspaw]

I know this maybe difficult but can you get a micro shot of it.

and tell us a little more about it. In the picture it looks flat, I have seen minabia coral come up on Live Rock in my frag tank, and I have had mushrooms and button polyps also. only they aren't so hard to ID from a picture. Maybe someone else would be better suited than me.

tarcey

 

[micagreenmachine]

I've got something similar that grew out of nowhere on my rock too. I think it's encusting porites. It's neat stuff. Grows fast with lots of light and calcium and a moderate-strong current mixed with some down time with very low current so it can extend it's polyps.

~Todd

 

[davelin315]

Looks like porites to me too.

 

[danmhippo]

I blew up the picture and it does look like porites. (Thanks to your digital cam, its at least 2mega pixel, right?)

 

[MacGyver]

3.4 mega pixel.

 

[cubera]

Montipora sp. HTH