I have an amazing chalice (see attached images)
2-3 months ago I was at one of my local stores and saw this beauty. I spotted the tiny quarter inch coral growing on a piece of dead plate coral. I went over to one of the workers, pointed it out, asked for the price, was told $20, bought it on the spot. The people at the store assumed it was blasto but I felt the fleshy base made it look like a chalice. I then went onto here, Reef2Reef, good few people said chalice, good few people said blasto. Still with no definitive answer, and my bias towards chalice waning, I kept searching.
After exhaustive searching online I came across to what I belive to be the corals identity, Echinopora Lamellos. The same species as the common Hollywood Stunner. In the provided pictures there is an updated photo on the coral showing that it is in fact a chalice (the photo was was taken a week after the coral was a little banged up so it is not at its prime).
2-3 months ago I was at one of my local stores and saw this beauty. I spotted the tiny quarter inch coral growing on a piece of dead plate coral. I went over to one of the workers, pointed it out, asked for the price, was told $20, bought it on the spot. The people at the store assumed it was blasto but I felt the fleshy base made it look like a chalice. I then went onto here, Reef2Reef, good few people said chalice, good few people said blasto. Still with no definitive answer, and my bias towards chalice waning, I kept searching.
After exhaustive searching online I came across to what I belive to be the corals identity, Echinopora Lamellos. The same species as the common Hollywood Stunner. In the provided pictures there is an updated photo on the coral showing that it is in fact a chalice (the photo was was taken a week after the coral was a little banged up so it is not at its prime).
