id monti?
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electrokate
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I am also trying to ID my monti "species unknown" from Marty. As I recall it, he got it from Kahuna Corals as Montipora confusa.
I am trying to ID it from this page:
http://whelk.aims.gov.au/coralsearch/html/701-800/Species pages/742.htm
I can't get into the myriad other databases I usually would look at because those pages are NOT FOUND, which I could rant about ad nauseum but will skip.
If you look at the above site and click on their links you can compare confusa and vietnamensis. My specimen depending on bulb age will show a purple rim and purple highlights on new growth. The polyps are the same size as those of montipora digitata next to it. There are bright white patches at the highest points on the older tissue, greenish tints to flat tissue between polyps, the polyps are brown, and as I recall when I got it it had a great metallic green look which I have been unable to keep under PC lights. The polyps looked smaller and more recessed when it was new to me but I think life in captivity/my low flow tanks has caused them to grow more everted-they are now pretty fuzzy and project beyond the skeleton. This makes them harder to ID, since what they look like in captivity can be so influenced by tank conditions rather than actual species... I have an awful time photographing it for some reason so this is my best shot.
I found vietnamensis on this page
http://images.google.com/imgres?img...firefox-a&rls=org.mozilla:en-US:official&sa=G
you may be right. I can't tell the difference myself
Kate
I am trying to ID it from this page:
http://whelk.aims.gov.au/coralsearch/html/701-800/Species pages/742.htm
I can't get into the myriad other databases I usually would look at because those pages are NOT FOUND, which I could rant about ad nauseum but will skip.
If you look at the above site and click on their links you can compare confusa and vietnamensis. My specimen depending on bulb age will show a purple rim and purple highlights on new growth. The polyps are the same size as those of montipora digitata next to it. There are bright white patches at the highest points on the older tissue, greenish tints to flat tissue between polyps, the polyps are brown, and as I recall when I got it it had a great metallic green look which I have been unable to keep under PC lights. The polyps looked smaller and more recessed when it was new to me but I think life in captivity/my low flow tanks has caused them to grow more everted-they are now pretty fuzzy and project beyond the skeleton. This makes them harder to ID, since what they look like in captivity can be so influenced by tank conditions rather than actual species... I have an awful time photographing it for some reason so this is my best shot.
I found vietnamensis on this page
http://images.google.com/imgres?img...firefox-a&rls=org.mozilla:en-US:official&sa=G
you may be right. I can't tell the difference myself
Kate
electrokate
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That second link didn't work because somehow the text got turned into a smiley icon. I hate smileys! Trying again with smileys disabled...
http://www.meerwasser-lexikon.de/de/95/1600/Montipora/vietnamensis.htm
It's from this page which has all kinds of sps on it and is really cool-if you can read German
http://www.meerwasser-lexikon.de/de/95/0/0/liste_Steinkorallen SPS.htm
Kate
http://www.meerwasser-lexikon.de/de/95/1600/Montipora/vietnamensis.htm
It's from this page which has all kinds of sps on it and is really cool-if you can read German
http://www.meerwasser-lexikon.de/de/95/0/0/liste_Steinkorallen SPS.htm
Kate
electrokate
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vietnamensis looks like the polyps are in rows between ridges. This has more randomly distributed polyps, from my point of view.
I am both glad and sorry I don't have skeleton to use for identifying it! It did die back for a while but quickly grew over the dead part. Should have examined it when it died back. Might be impossible to ID this from a photo, really. I am going to stick with confusa because that is what it was sold as and I see enough evidence to switch the ID to vietnamensis. Both are very nice though.
Kate
I am both glad and sorry I don't have skeleton to use for identifying it! It did die back for a while but quickly grew over the dead part. Should have examined it when it died back. Might be impossible to ID this from a photo, really. I am going to stick with confusa because that is what it was sold as and I see enough evidence to switch the ID to vietnamensis. Both are very nice though.
Kate
