Coral ID

[The Apprentice]

Hey Kevin I am hoping you can ID this Guy a Very good Friend of mine we will call him MR HaHn broke a little frag of him over a year ago

It is starting to encrust at the base and it could have came from Spokane

It Kind of reminds me of a Montipora Digitada.. I just don't know ???

I hope the shot is good enough Been trying to get a good one all day.

 

[kevinpo]

Hi Jeff,
It is hard to tell from the picture but M. digitata is a good guess. It is quite brittle and likes to encrust at the base before branching out. Under ideal conditions it will grow 1.25"/month so give it plenty of room.

Regards,
Kevin

 

[The Apprentice]

A big thanks

Thanks Kevin I sure will. I do have some Purple tipped Montipora Digitada that exceeds that growth rate in this Tank However this guy has only grown 1.25" in about a year?

I have to post this for JRBear5658 my favorite
Helfrichi Firefish he had sent me a pm for some shots


I hope you like them JR I am not the camera expert that my wife is But I think you will like the eye candy...Jeff

The first one is a crappy try a Purple tri color
Second one i belive is green Poclopora
third one is a 4" frag i got from Portland I was told its a Stylo Pistillata Neon Green
I belive every one has a good idea on the little guy in picture 4
And the last picture is a guy that i got the size of golf ball its about softball sized after a Year I am sure it is a Seriatopora Hystrix. Pink Birdsnest

 

[Rod Buehler]

looks like a porities to me, but its hard to tell from a pic, and your second post/second pic is an acro, not a poccilopora.. a millie if I had to guess

 

[kevinpo]

Hi Jeff,
It could be a Porites. If it came from here it would be green with yellow new growth tips. Also Porites has an unusual smell to it. It can also build up a waxy coat over it that it sheds after a few days. Another feature is that it is a very hard coral compared to M. digitata or even other Montipora corals.

The green coral with the long polyps in the second picture looks to be a Acropora millepora. I have sold many frags of it and forms a table type growth as it matures. It is one of the fastest growing corals I know of.

The purple ones look like they might be Acropora valida to me.

Regards,
Kevin

 

[kevinpo]

The third picture looks like a Montipora not a Stylophora. S. pistillata usually has very blunt thick branches and extreme polyp extention that makes it look like a fuzzy ball. But it could be a stylophora. Corals can really change in the home aquarium to be impossible to ID even when you have a skeleton to look at.

The fourth picture looks like A. valida and the last one is S. hystrix.

Regards,
Kevin

 

[gregreefer]

very nice corals if you decide to do some frags im only 20 min away QUOTE=The Apprentice;174434] Thanks Kevin I sure will. I do have some Purple tipped Montipora Digitada that exceeds that growth rate in this Tank However this guy has only grown 1.25" in about a year?

I have to post this for JRBear5658 my favorite
Helfrichi Firefish he had sent me a pm for some shots


I hope you like them JR I am not the camera expert that my wife is But I think you will like the eye candy...Jeff

The first one is a crappy try a Purple tri color
Second one i belive is green Poclopora
third one is a 4" frag i got from Portland I was told its a Stylo Pistillata Neon Green
I belive every one has a good idea on the little guy in picture 4
And the last picture is a guy that i got the size of golf ball its about softball sized after a Year I am sure it is a Seriatopora Hystrix. Pink Birdsnest[/QUOTE]

 

[The Apprentice]

Sent a pm Greg I still have a few of these Guys.

 

[gary shandling]

Could be a porites or birds nest. Heres a great site.GL..

http://www.asira.org/caresheets