Nano_reeflover
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Acropora species identification?
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Nano_reeflover
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lol no it's at my LFS and they recently moved it so it's sideways. I think it might be a valida, but I wanted a second opinion.
I definitely see some similarities to solitaryensis in this coral, especially the axial corallites.
I can see this too C.Eymann, I think if the branches begin to grow taller, then we are dead on with the tri-color, however, if they stay short and the energy of growth is applied to the tabling, then we may have a soli. Not efflo though
but growth pattern is not really a reliable/ definitive way of IDing Acropora, so many species will exhibit a multitude of growth patterns depending on environmental factors such as flow and light.
another reason I think this is A. solitaryensis is because of the daytime axial corallites polyp extention, a trait common with solitaryensis, not A. valida. also the single tubular like growth tips, where as V. valida are usually more rounded in structure.
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Im guessing possibly A. loripes
Keoki18
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I agree with this being A. solitaryensis for the last reason stated. My valida's have grown leggy and tabling, but those growth tips look far too tubular and elongated to be a tri-color. Nice piece though. I'd get it and nurse it back to full color!
MichaelW
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I think it's valida buddy but not sure. I think it's like the one you saw in my tank The other week
How are those frags doing you got from me? The one you brought over is getting nice p.e now, just waiting to see what color it will go. Do you have a pick of the colony it came From?
How are those frags doing you got from me? The one you brought over is getting nice p.e now, just waiting to see what color it will go. Do you have a pick of the colony it came From?
I think it's valida buddy but not sure. I think it's like the one you saw in my tank The other week
How are those frags doing you got from me? The one you brought over is getting nice p.e now, just waiting to see what color it will go. Do you have a pick of the colony it came From?
I maybe wrong, but I really believe this to be A. solitaryensis. The one you pictured looks like A. solitaryensis as well. It doesn't have the pocketed raidular corallites like A.valida.
Just for reference, A. solitaryensis doesn't always grow in a a strict table, the other thing I mentioned before is that A. valida does not exhibit daytime polyp extension out of the axial corallites.
http://www.reeflex.net/tiere/604_Acropora_solitaryensis.htm
Nano_reeflover
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I think it's valida buddy but not sure. I think it's like the one you saw in my tank The other week
How are those frags doing you got from me? The one you brought over is getting nice p.e now, just waiting to see what color it will go. Do you have a pick of the colony it came From?
They're doing good! Really happy with them. Glad that frag is doing well for ya. I don't have a recent pic because I dipped all my corals in bayer and it bleached out. Here's a pic of the mother colony when I got it though.
