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I got this a few weeks ago and can’t seem to id it. Does any one know what sps this is? It is getting its blue hue back more and more every day.
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The one to the right of the candy coral.
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Its an Acropora Sp.? 
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well, we're getting this narrowed down (sarcasm).
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Since leslea cannot come up with a name, Ill call it Bob.
How about that?
All kidding aside its some sort of acropora. It you have good lights it should color up nicely.
Only time will tell. I got one that is turning yellow with red tips and I think its polyps might be turning green. I figured I will know for sure it's colors in a month or so.
How about that?
All kidding aside its some sort of acropora. It you have good lights it should color up nicely.
Only time will tell. I got one that is turning yellow with red tips and I think its polyps might be turning green. I figured I will know for sure it's colors in a month or so.
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Acropora sp. Hard to id down to species by just looking at it, much less with a picture.
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It look like a Cerialis. What color is the polyps ?
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If more of you guys would have gone to see Eric Borneman at the last meeting you would have heard how hard it is to find the species of a Acropora. Even Eric doesn't have enough expierence to do it sometimes. You have to have known samples of other some expensive microscope, and much more. Eric says we should be happy with a Genus and Sp? What you'll get from a picture is it kind of looks like this species. There was a lot more but I am tired of typing.
Even Eric doesn't have enough expierence to do it sometimes. You have to have known samples of other some expensive microscope, and much more. Eric says we should be happy with a Genus and Sp? What you'll get from a picture is it kind of looks like this species. There was a lot more but I am tired of typing.
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You can read the articles behind Eric's presentation here:
http://reefkeeping.com/issues/2003-11/eb/index.htm
http://reefkeeping.com/issues/2003-11/eb/index.htm
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Like Leslea and the others said it is very hard to id. a frag of acropora unless you know where it came from and that person knows what the parent colony is. That said, this looks like a couple of species of acropora this frag may turn out to be. This all has to be taken into account that if the frag is wild it may not grow the same as the parnt colony in captivity. If it is a captive grown frag it may already have lost all parental characteristics to help you know what species this frag is.
So IMO, this looks to be either an acropora valida{not purple monster valida}, or acropora gomezi. I say these 2 species due to the up turned radial corallites and the big axial corallite. Whether this is close or not it's my best guess from cruising Corals Of The World, volumn 1 by JEN Veron.
So IMO, this looks to be either an acropora valida{not purple monster valida}, or acropora gomezi. I say these 2 species due to the up turned radial corallites and the big axial corallite. Whether this is close or not it's my best guess from cruising Corals Of The World, volumn 1 by JEN Veron.
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ReefALot said:
They look clear at the top & brown at the base of it.
