A couple hitchhiker corals

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saltcreep1025

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Here are two corals I got on some gulf live rock. When I got the rock shipped to me, it was just wrapped in wet paper towel and the corals looked completely dead, but after about a week they started coming back. Anyone know what either of them are?

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In the first photo they look like bleached calaustrea (trumpet coral). They should make a comeback with proper care (very hardy LPS coral).

The second photo appears to be leptastrea, an encrusting type of LPS.

When fully recovered the polyps will look like this:
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