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Thanks for the input everyone. It's a surprise you all have said its bleached. I thought the same and even came back and asked their "reef expert" and he said its definitely not bleached. Any chance these can be white?
Bubble corals can come white. I'm not convinced it's a bubble coral though. The skeleton is flat and a square piece was fragged from the parent colony and then glued to a plug. If it was a bubble coral you would have to cut more skeleton than what was cut here, since the flesh goes deeper than a 1/2" or so. Can you take a few more pictures?
Not according to your pictures. see the skeletons under these corals in the LA picture? they are considerable. The corals would soon die if you sawed off all but a 1/4" of that skeleton.
Update: I was moving a new coral around this morning (and also avoiding my territorial clownfish ) and the coral in question kind of expanded. Maybe this picture could help more! Could this have been agitation from the flow being messed up?usualy is just shrinks to its skeleton.. Thanks!