Blue Acropora ID.

[Benighted]

Hi guys, I'm wondering if somebody could identify this Acropora I have in my tank.

Older pictures

 

[john90009]

tenuis maybey?

 

[Benighted]

Thanks John, could be a tenuis for sure, some pictures I see of it are really close, others are totally different. Weird, probably some confusion out there

 

[john90009]

Its most definitely not any stag the polyps are coming out very far and the corallites are to close, No doubt its a nice coral, and going to probably turn all blue.

 

[Benighted]

No, the growth pattern is definitely not stag type, and yeah, I did see the mother-colony when I got the frag, and was a really nice dark blue bushy type of acro, to bad he didn't know the species. But the most important thing is that it is a beauty, and grows really well, over 1cm on each branch each month. One of my favorites in the tank for sure ..

Actually, just came to think of it, I think this is the mother colony. Even though the color is actually a lot better in real life, a dark real nice royal blue.

 

[john90009]

Blue tip bottle brush if it was to have a name

 

[Frankenpora]

Not Tenuis IMO. Tenuis have a flared rounded coralite opening.
It looks alot like Chips Acro, and I have yet to get a difinitive ID
on chips. Maybe Bottle Brush as mentioned.

A. Subulata is my vote