"Walking" Corals"

[radiata]

Watch these ‘walking’ corals strut their stuff​

https://www.science.org/content/art...t&utm_campaign=DailyLatestNews&et_cid=5503131

Thedy're not specifically mentioned in the article, but I think they're our Stony Fungia corals.

 

[myrjon]

kinda cool

 

[MadReefer]

I ordered a walking Dendro, still waiting for it to arrive.

 

[ole farny]

it does look like Cycloseris is in the Fungiiadae family. i had a Heliofungia (long tentacled plate coral) in a 10 gallon nano that would move around the tank, but not much given the size of the plate and the limited space to move in the tank. i actually saw it doing it a few times and to me it looked like it was inflating, presumably with lots of water to increase its buoyancy toward neutral. then it would somehow catch some current and move where the current took it. that was a very cool coral, but i lost it when we were on vacation and a peppermint shrimp must have triggered the ato sensor because i came home to a tank that had obviously flooded and super low salinity.

i didn't see the hopping like in that video, but you could clearly see it intentionally move about the tank.