How to identify species of acropora?

[NeuroDoc]

I am looking for a good online source to help me identify the species of some acropora and millipora frags I recently bought. Any sugestions?

 

[diablo]

get some expensive books. I have the corals of the world three volume set and its a pretty decent book set

 

[NeuroDoc]

get some expensive books. I have the corals of the world three volume set and its a pretty decent book set

That's exactly what I am trying to avoid. NO WAY my wife will let me spend a couple hundred on a coral book.

If you want to see a cool book you should check out Cabinet of Natural Curiosities. All drawings of one man who lived in the late 1600s and early 1700s. He collected everything he drew. It's amazing. I was given this book last Christmas.

 

[NaH2O]

Try this:

CoralSearch Search Page. The only true way to ID a coral down to species is with a skeleton, but this might help get it narrowed down.