Bodine, those macros are great. I visited your webpage and your 180 is beautiful. I'd love to see a couple more pictures of your whole tank. Maybe a right side and a left side shot.
I bought this Sony DCS-F707 and I aint gonna say what I paid for it....kicked my butt for a while.
Now I can get some nice macro shots with it.....
You can count the tenticles on the polyps.
One of my lab mates just got back from UCSB after having done growth studies on Stylophora. He brought with him the skeletons, and I've had one live in a collection before too.
Bodine, I'd say that bird's nest is actually a Stylophora pistillata or the other species I can't remember.
They have very different growth shapes, but the mittens at the end are trademark regardless of the overall colony shape. THey are also usually pinkish and have same polyps.