250's new aussie monti...Canadian Pink Lemonade Monti Perhaps???

[250G]

Well here it is. Think it has some potential if it survives and colours up. Did not look good when I bought it but appeared to have some potential. Happy to be able to save it.

Has Canadian Pink Lemonade Monti written all over it

 

[CMcNeil]

looks like a porities to me.

 

[GSMguy]

<a href=showthread.php?s=&postid=14508580#post14508580 target=_blank>Originally posted</a> by CMcNeil
looks like a porities to me.

Yep. Also looks like shipping has dulled the color, I would wait till it's recovered before naming it.

 

[rreed]

new coral

new coral

Looks like porities to me as well. Also see big aptasia on left.

 

[roblack]

Canadian Pink Lemonade Porites sounds good to me.

 

[DesigDiver]

+3 on porites...

 

[reefer334]

Very nice Piece!!

But like said above it will probalbly shift colors on you.

 

[250G]

Jusk kidding on the name - us Canadians have no deisigner name corals and I do not plan on starting them!

Ok, I only have one porites, and it is more the traditional type which I can identify.

So how can you tell this is a porites? I have many other encrusting montis (both wild and aquaculture) that look somewhat similar. Not that the ID matters much to me as yellow/green with pink polyps is sweet. I just want to know. Thanks for the ID help on this one. Dave

 

[CMcNeil]

look at the polyps and base.the base tends to have a glassy look to it and IIRC the polyps are hexagonal in shape.

 

[Capt_Cully]

resembles the sanddollar monti does it not?

 

[250G]

Good! I think every aussie piece I have purchased has only improved in colour. Hoping the base gets a more consistent colour and the polpys stay pink.

<a href=showthread.php?s=&postid=14509154#post14509154 target=_blank>Originally posted</a> by reefer334
Very nice Piece!!

But like said above it will probalbly shift colors on you.

 

[kev apsley]

Possibly Montipora Foveolata looks similar in structure to this piece, the Foveolata have rather large polyps for a montipora

 

[losthere]

Looks a lot like ATL Jack Rose as well.

 

[therman]

Pretty sure its not M. foveolata, but it might be M. venosa (same as Pink Sandollar) if it is a Montipora. If I remember correctly, when the polyps are retracted, Porites have a ring of little spikes inside the corallite which Montipora do not.

 

[Nanook]

[moved]

 

[kev apsley]

M. Venosa is a good guess, the Sandollar was the first thing that popped into my head when I first looked at the pics

 

[250G]

What site/reference are you using for ID's these days? Interested in learning more about this piece. I will check for the spikes inside the coralites when the polyps are retracted. A quick google reveals Montipora venosa has been identified in Australia.

<a href=showthread.php?s=&postid=14511935#post14511935 target=_blank>Originally posted</a> by therman
Pretty sure its not M. foveolata, but it might be M. venosa (same as Pink Sandollar) if it is a Montipora. If I remember correctly, when the polyps are retracted, Porites have a ring of little spikes inside the corallite which Montipora do not.

This piece is still stressed from shipping but does not appear to have large polyps, at least not yet.

<a href=showthread.php?s=&postid=14510965#post14510965 target=_blank>Originally posted</a> by kev apsley
Possibly Montipora Foveolata looks similar in structure to this piece, the Foveolata have rather large polyps for a montipora