Help ID this SPS

[visiontech4x4]

I am thinking it is either lime in the sky or Surf n Turf. The color is off in the pick it has a lot more green. The polyps are green and the stalk tacing the light is sky blue. Let me know what you think.

 

[visiontech4x4]

Here is another picture

 

[Frick]

Well do you know for sure if it is "Lime in the Sky" or does it just look like it?

Looks like Loisetteae to me. http://sdmas.com/corals/837.php

 

[gon08]

Well do you know for sure if it is "Lime in the Sky" or does it just look like it?

Looks like Loisetteae to me. http://sdmas.com/corals/837.php

+1 Loisetteae

 

[returnofsid]

A. loisetteae was the first thing to pop into my head, as well.

 

[visiontech4x4]

Isn't loisetteae and surf and turf the same? Here is another picture

 

[gon08]

That's the problem with Hobby names. I have a loisetteae that looks just like that, but mine was a maricultured colony. So if I decide to name it Minty Fresh there would be yet another exact same coral with a different name.

 

[Whisperer]

Pie in the sky

 

[returnofsid]

Isn't loisetteae and surf and turf the same? Here is another picture

No. A. loisetteae is a scientific name. "surf and turf" is a made up, hobby name.

I have 2 A. loisetteae colonies, well one is a large colony, one is more of a large frag. They are each different from one another and each have different hobby names.

 

[Softhammer]

gon08...Amen dude. 1 legitimate coral has 2367 bs marketing names, yet those who need specific info cannot provide, nor care about species names. At the end of the day if you can keep an acropora, you can keep most of the acroporas....

 

[gon08]

gon08...Amen dude. 1 legitimate coral has 2367 bs marketing names, yet those who need specific info cannot provide, nor care about species names. At the end of the day if you can keep an acropora, you can keep most of the acroporas....

I don't mind a coral being known by the person or organization that fragged and grew it ie; ORA (insert color and species), but to name it tootie fruity raspberry swirl is just dumb to me. There is no real way to keep track of the corals origin and no one is going to do DNA testing on them either although if I truly had a one of a kind coral I would get it's DNA and copyright it. Anyone who named a similar coral would have to prove it's not from the same colony by testing it's DNA. That would limit having the same coral under a million different names.