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Frick
AZ FRAG President
Possibly Acropora parilis.
http://coral.aims.gov.au/factsheet.jsp?speciesCode=0469
http://coral.aims.gov.au/factsheet.jsp?speciesCode=0469
Cool. Can you share your thought process in determining that it was possibly Acropora parilis?
Thanks,
Frick
AZ FRAG President
Sure, but I cannot say i am 100% certian at this point. There maybe many other possiblities.
I was mainly basing my guess on the corallites " Axial corallites are small and thick walled." Yours are not going off too far. "Radial corallites are of one size and have prominent lower lips giving a scale-like appearance." Which sound like most Acropora radials but as for stag type Acros, there are not too many that do this. But who knows? This could turn out to not be a stag at all and grow into a table or cluster.
I was mainly basing my guess on the corallites " Axial corallites are small and thick walled." Yours are not going off too far. "Radial corallites are of one size and have prominent lower lips giving a scale-like appearance." Which sound like most Acropora radials but as for stag type Acros, there are not too many that do this. But who knows? This could turn out to not be a stag at all and grow into a table or cluster.
Thanks. I look at the SPS in my tanks and try to match them to Vernon's COTW and realize I really can't tell a pavona from a monty digi. So I'm trying to learn how the experts do it. Big help.
