Acropora Millepora

[Reefer Jerm]

Whats up reefers!!!

Yes good idea Wonder...you start it and we all can post pics...I really enjoy pic threads the most...alot of you reefers here have some awsome tanks and sps pieces...I've seen alot of great looking frags on e-bay as well lately...very resonable prices compared to the imfamous large frag retailers....such a selection, heck its hard to even get the same piece, and I'm nearing 100 different acroporas now.....

soooooo...break out the pics...lol!

Doc Jerm

 

[Ed Hahn]

Ok, is this a yellow milli or yellow Prostata?

I could not tell which one of the above it was. But I keep waiting for it to break off. So can someone tell me Prostata or Milli?

 

[Reefer Jerm]

hey whats up Ed....

its a mille....not prostrata...

a few guidlines...

mille......-rounder ends, very very hard skeleton..grows very symetrical uniform branches..short and stubby...

prostratas....-very brittle skeletons...pointed tips...irregular growth pattern, more length and thiness to the branches...really a huge difference...coralites look similar, but thats about it...there are a couple other similar sub-species, that throws a bigger "ID" curve...
Nice piece though...

Doc

 

[Ed Hahn]

hey whats up Ed....

its a mille....not prostrata...

a few guidlines...

mille......-rounder ends, very very hard skeleton..grows very symetrical uniform branches..short and stubby...

prostratas....-very brittle skeletons...pointed tips...irregular growth pattern, more length and thiness to the branches...really a huge difference...coralites look similar, but thats about it...there are a couple other similar sub-species, that throws a bigger "ID" curve...
Nice piece though...

Doc

Thanks, I appreciate you sharing your wealth.
Ed

 

[Reefer Jerm]

My humble thanks Ed!!

I very much enjoy sharing and learning, to improve, establish and bring more people into this wonderful adventure of REEFING!! I love it...Our tanks bring us much happiness in an ever increasing dying world....

Doc out........................................................

 

[Scooterman]

My favs. these corals are beautiful!

 

[SueT]

Strangely my deep red prostrata is about my hardest coral to frag. It has such a hard skeleton.

Talking about some of those look-a-like millepora corals, here's a perfect example.

Acropora spicifera