Could anybody ID These Three Corals ?
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exoticaquatix
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wow, thanks chris. its more rare than i thought. im glad i finally brought this piece home. it sat in our SPS system for quite a while and only one of our customers even noticed it besides me. he wanted it but knew i was keeping my eye on it so he left it. im going to do some research on this guy now that i know what he is.
also. thanks for finally proving me right about that lokani. i cant wait to "i told you so" my co-workers
cant wait to pick up some more stuff from your place either, what i have from my last purchase is doing great.
-nick
also. thanks for finally proving me right about that lokani. i cant wait to "i told you so" my co-workers
cant wait to pick up some more stuff from your place either, what i have from my last purchase is doing great.
-nick
143gadgets
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Thanks Chris!! Mine has bug white polyps as well. Any suggestions regarding flow and/or lighting?
wentreefgirl
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exoticaquatix
Here you go. Wow, he is the master. I looked at this page but for some reason didnt resemble it. But he knows better then I. Thats why Im having him id my stuff too. THanks chris once again.
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Here you go. Wow, he is the master. I looked at this page but for some reason didnt resemble it. But he knows better then I. Thats why Im having him id my stuff too. THanks chris once again.
<img src="http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v298/wentreefgirl/Picture884412238.jpg">
exoticaquatix
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well, i just looked at every Plesiastrea verispora picture i could find and it appears to me that this is not what i have. the middle of each polyp isnt nearly as big as some of the pics. the polyps are also much farther apart and have a more irregular pattern. some but not all of the polyps are raised which looks more like a Cyphastrea than the Plesiastrea. the expansion of the polyps also seems to rule out the Cyphastrea. what we could have here is the newly discovered Nickestrea twentydollarfraga the search continues.
thanks all
-nick
the search continues.thanks all
-nick
wentreefgirl
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I love the names. Well if its any consolation, I had a good time searching for you. And im happy its a rare one to boot. Give it a blue name and it could be the newest coral craze.
I love the names. Well if its any consolation, I had a good time searching for you. And im happy its a rare one to boot. Give it a blue name and it could be the newest coral craze.
wentreefgirl
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Uh Chris, dummy me forgot I have mother colonys of these corals. But they are not close. See if they help.
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ReeferMadnessUS
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exoticaquatix,
I beg to differ, even looking at it again I still believe that this is Plesiastrea verispora. The photos in Veron are very hard to compare sizes but if you look in the description you will see that the corallites are tiny 2 to 4 mm in diameter which is tiny. From what I can see in your photo it looks as though these are just as small. Cyphastrea have corallites that are closed in and they have coenosteum that is granulated- in otherwords bumpy surface between the corallites. Like I mentioned in the previous post this does not have a granulated coenosteum and the corallites are open where you can clearly see the mouth within the corallite. Now I am only going by a small photo so I can only make a ID from what I can see. But from what it looks like the corallite size and for how open they are still matches the Plesiastrea verispora. But I could easily be wrong as photos are 2 dimensional and I don't have it in my hand.
Just a rebuttle to your argument
I love debating something this rare, man what a Reef Geek I am! This is how I spend my Sunday's, lol.
Chris @ RM
I beg to differ, even looking at it again I still believe that this is Plesiastrea verispora. The photos in Veron are very hard to compare sizes but if you look in the description you will see that the corallites are tiny 2 to 4 mm in diameter which is tiny. From what I can see in your photo it looks as though these are just as small. Cyphastrea have corallites that are closed in and they have coenosteum that is granulated- in otherwords bumpy surface between the corallites. Like I mentioned in the previous post this does not have a granulated coenosteum and the corallites are open where you can clearly see the mouth within the corallite. Now I am only going by a small photo so I can only make a ID from what I can see. But from what it looks like the corallite size and for how open they are still matches the Plesiastrea verispora. But I could easily be wrong as photos are 2 dimensional and I don't have it in my hand.
Just a rebuttle to your argument
I love debating something this rare, man what a Reef Geek I am! This is how I spend my Sunday's, lol.
Chris @ RM
wentreefgirl
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Its nice to see you on a sunday afternoon. Must mean the wife has the kids. (grinning but still feeling for the wife at the same time). What about the mother colonys chris. Any changes to your diagnosis with the grown up kids,lol.
ReeferMadnessUS
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Wentreefgirl,
Ahh yes sorry about that. Nice to see that you have the full grown colonies so that I can give you a better guess.
#1 I am still having a hard time figuring out what it might be. Even from the other photo that you uploaded I can't really seem to make it out. Can you try for another? Maybe just that Acro and not the Monti.
#2 A. azurea as this seems to have longer and not quite so bulbous corallites as A. valida.
#3 I still believe this to be A. valienciennesi as it seems to be a staghorn. But if this turns out to be something more bushy than a Stag then I am wrong and I will have to find something else .
This sure is an exact science isn't it?
Chris @ RM
Ohh and my wife did have the kids but only because I have to work every Sunday for about 8 hours putting up new corals on the site.
Ahh yes sorry about that. Nice to see that you have the full grown colonies so that I can give you a better guess.
#1 I am still having a hard time figuring out what it might be. Even from the other photo that you uploaded I can't really seem to make it out. Can you try for another? Maybe just that Acro and not the Monti.
#2 A. azurea as this seems to have longer and not quite so bulbous corallites as A. valida.
#3 I still believe this to be A. valienciennesi as it seems to be a staghorn. But if this turns out to be something more bushy than a Stag then I am wrong and I will have to find something else
. This sure is an exact science isn't it?
Chris @ RM
Ohh and my wife did have the kids but only because I have to work every Sunday for about 8 hours putting up new corals on the site.
wentreefgirl
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Hey thanks chris. Saw some of those new corals. I always know when you disappear your busy in the family dept.
Bebo77
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take a look for yourself
http://www.reefcentral.com/forums/showthread.php?s=&postid=7504836#post7504836
exoticaquatix
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ill just have to take your word for it i guess, chris. hopefully ill have enough of it some day to send some out to people. share the rare. can i then technically name it after my self? haha. not in a scientific sense of course. i appreciate all the help wentreefgirl, i didnt forget about ya. ill try to get some more pics, better close ups, when i get my tank back up.
-nick
hopefully ill have enough of it some day to send some out to people. share the rare. can i then technically name it after my self? haha. not in a scientific sense of course. i appreciate all the help wentreefgirl, i didnt forget about ya. ill try to get some more pics, better close ups, when i get my tank back up.-nick
exoticaquatix
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oh yeah, almost forgot....HOLY S*** Bebo. that thing is amazing/crazy/beautiful. What would Monty say about that one Chris.
-nick
-nick
wentreefgirl
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Exoticaquatix, blue moon crater, sound good<img src="http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v298/wentreefgirl/Blinkies%20and%20siggies/dunno.gif">
Bebo77-<img src="http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v298/wentreefgirl/Blinkies%20and%20siggies/wow.gif">Thats hot. Looks like a cross of blue tenuis, crayola plana and a soli. So tenusoliplana. Sounds good. <img src="http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v298/wentreefgirl/Blinkies%20and%20siggies/grinhuge.gif">
Bebo77-<img src="http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v298/wentreefgirl/Blinkies%20and%20siggies/wow.gif">Thats hot. Looks like a cross of blue tenuis, crayola plana and a soli. So tenusoliplana. Sounds good. <img src="http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v298/wentreefgirl/Blinkies%20and%20siggies/grinhuge.gif">
ReeferMadnessUS
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Bebo,
Monty has left the building due to his solied Pants, Acropora stoddarti or maybe A. solitaryensis.... I can't really tell as these colors can't be real . The overall structure of this piece looks as though the branches are fused to some extent= A. solitaryensis. But it has so many incipient axial corallites that I am inclined to say A. stoddarti. I could easily be wrong as Europe gets corals from different suppliers and regions than we do. If he provided a different view I might be able to give a better guess.
Looking at a piece like that (or that tank) makes me feel stupid.
Chris @ RM
Monty has left the building due to his solied Pants, Acropora stoddarti or maybe A. solitaryensis.... I can't really tell as these colors can't be real
. The overall structure of this piece looks as though the branches are fused to some extent= A. solitaryensis. But it has so many incipient axial corallites that I am inclined to say A. stoddarti. I could easily be wrong as Europe gets corals from different suppliers and regions than we do. If he provided a different view I might be able to give a better guess. Looking at a piece like that (or that tank) makes me feel stupid.
Chris @ RM
wentreefgirl
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Get a side view. THe challange is on.
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