Acro ID

[Travis Savant]

Hey guys, I just got a frag of this realy cool acro from a local guy, what kind of acro is it or is it even an acro at all?

 

[twon8]

it is and acro, and a green one, but without a closer/clearer pic i can't tell.

 

[Sanfernando]

twon8, im just curious how you could tell what species it is from a closer/clearer pic?

 

[greystreet41]

mille?

 

[Michael7979]

<a href=showthread.php?s=&postid=6834124#post6834124 target=_blank>Originally posted</a> by Sanfernando
twon8, im just curious how you could tell what species it is from a closer/clearer pic?

Probably the way the coralites grow is what he would want to see in a close-up picture.

 

[Travis Savant]

I only took that one picture at his house, but here is a close up of the frag.

 

[Sanfernando]

<a href=showthread.php?s=&postid=6834318#post6834318 target=_blank>Originally posted</a> by Michael7979
Probably the way the coralites grow is what he would want to see in a close-up picture.

is anyone on this forum trained in stony coral taxonomy? There seems to be several dozen people from this forum who are able to identify stony corals better than the leading scientists in the field. its amazing that people can even narrow down from pics an acropora to a few dozen possible species let alone know its exact species.

 

[clkwrk]

Did the mother colony look like this ?

sorry wrong pic

New pic

 

[Travis Savant]

Yeah, but it wasn't so verticle.

 

[clkwrk]

neither is that piece it is just positioned so .

It actually has a table type form. I will try to get a better pic of the whole coral.

 

[gregm5]

reminds me of a A. nasuta.

 

[Michael7979]

<a href=showthread.php?s=&postid=6834507#post6834507 target=_blank>Originally posted</a> by Sanfernando
is anyone on this forum trained in stony coral taxonomy? There seems to be several dozen people from this forum who are able to identify stony corals better than the leading scientists in the field. its amazing that people can even narrow down from pics an acropora to a few dozen possible species let alone know its exact species.

That was just an assumption of whhat I thought he would say. I don't know anything about coral identifications nor do I think I do. I have heard people say that the coralite growth pattern can lead you in a way to narrow down the possibilities, and thats it. I guess I should have given the longer asnswer so some wouldn't get bent out of shape.

 

[Travis Savant]

<a href=showthread.php?s=&postid=6834616#post6834616 target=_blank>Originally posted</a> by gregm5
reminds me of a A. nasuta.

May be right, here's a picture of the A. Nasuta Skelaton