ID this Acropora

[freddi36]

Hi!
New here, I got a tip that you guys and girls are good at identifying sps corals Hope you can help me out with this one. Bought it yesterday so the polyps hasn't come out yet. Anyway, the polyps are pretty long and big.











Btw, does anybody know if the little crab that followed with the coral is a good or bad crab? It sat in a dead area on the coral..

 

[freddi36]

The crab!

 

[Pluedke1]

Looks like a white majestic tort to me. I can't really tell what the crab is... Good luck

 

[Buzz1329]

Looks like a white majestic tort to me. I can't really tell what the crab is... Good luck

Sorry to be a pain, but it would be great to follow along with your reasoning on iding this coral.

Thanks.

 

[Frick]

I am not sure if Pluedke s being serious with that ID name. White Majestic sounds like something you would name a dead coral, and this one looks alive. And the last coral it would be is an Acropora tortuosa. The crab is a little hermit you got as a freebee. i have tiny blue legs that like to sleep in my Red Planet and other tabling/plating corals.

So for an initial guess I would say Acropora jacquelineae.
http://coral.aims.gov.au/factsheet.jsp?speciesCode=0713

 

[freddi36]

It's not a Tort, even I can see that

Frick; I have posted the pics on two other forums, and got the names A speciosa, A granulosa, A multiacuta and now, A jacquelineae. To me it looks most like A jacquelineae or A speciosa. It's a "tabeling" species if that helps..

The little crab is not a hermitcrab, but an actual crab. Sorry if I misunderstand what you mean

 

[Frick]

It's not a Tort, even I can see that

Frick; I have posted the pics on two other forums, and got the names A speciosa, A granulosa, A multiacuta and now, A jacquelineae. To me it looks most like A jacquelineae or A speciosa. It's a "tabeling" species if that helps..

The little crab is not a hermitcrab, but an actual crab. Sorry if I misunderstand what you mean

Maybe A. speciosa, but that would usually be more of a bottle brush type, and have very unique radial corallites coming off the axial corallites.
http://coral.aims.gov.au/factsheet.jsp?speciesCode=0791

It's is a table like A. granulosa, but nothing else matches to me.
http://coral.aims.gov.au/factsheet.jsp?speciesCode=0033

And A. multiacuta has similar tips but nothing else.
http://coral.aims.gov.au/factsheet.jsp?speciesCode=0049

I see the crab now, thought it was the rock. The crab is an Acro crab. I would keep it in the Acro. They can be beneficial to the coral.

 

[freddi36]

Thank you!