Any ideas what types these are?
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Kolognekoral
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You snapped some nice ones! The first one is A. tenuis. Still small, but very distinctive with the scale-like radials in a rosette.
Now it gets tougher! In the second I can't really see the radials and their mouths. It may be A. ceralis or, if the openings are nariform, A. nasuta. These are corymbose in growth, but, if the end form is staghorn, then other species come into the picture, such as A. microphthalma.
The third one looks a lot like A. millipora, but the axials are a bit long. It may be A. hyacinthus, which is a table of astounding grace when grown out. The problem with a foto is the proportions are lost. One can't really judge just how thick the branches are. Generally speaking A. millipora has branches twice as thick as A. hyacinthus. A. vermiculata should, also, be considered.
The last two are a bit too unclear to see the details. The last one may be A. elseyi.
Hope this helps,
Now it gets tougher! In the second I can't really see the radials and their mouths. It may be A. ceralis or, if the openings are nariform, A. nasuta. These are corymbose in growth, but, if the end form is staghorn, then other species come into the picture, such as A. microphthalma.
The third one looks a lot like A. millipora, but the axials are a bit long. It may be A. hyacinthus, which is a table of astounding grace when grown out. The problem with a foto is the proportions are lost. One can't really judge just how thick the branches are. Generally speaking A. millipora has branches twice as thick as A. hyacinthus. A. vermiculata should, also, be considered.
The last two are a bit too unclear to see the details. The last one may be A. elseyi.
Hope this helps,
Kolognekoral
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With such long axial corallites, I doubt it is in the loripes group, along with A. granulosa. I searched through many species for this one and was really hard put to find fitting characteristics, except in the echinata group. A. elseyi was the only candidate I could imagine. Colour is unimportant, rather the bottle-brush branching and otherwise compact corallites made me consider it. As you know, corals can literally take on any colour depending on where they were collected and how they are housed in the aquarium.
just as i find something that looks pretty similar there is another one, the two both of you have mentioned and i saw .pecinatus i believe that looked pretty similar... I have a feeling this will be a tough one.. I will try to get a picture of it tonight out of the water, maybe size and shapes will be better defined out of the water
Kolognekoral
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I doubt it is A. pectinatus, as that is really an arboreal growth form, not caepsitose-corymbose. I, also, doubt it is A. aculeus as this tends to form a small table, not a bush, although the corallites are similar. A foto out of water may be very helpful. Try to get both sides. maybe it is a piece of a table mounted perpendicular.
Kolognekoral
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The second one looks like A. valida! Relatively common, but always a good-looking coral. It often gets a bit brown, which will lighten under very low PO4 conditions (0.02mgl/ppm). The first one still looks most like A. elseyi, but I will look more thoroughly through my books. Right now I gotta run to work.
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