Identification of faviids (Montastrea)

[clsanchez77]

I acquired several Montastrea sps. from www.fragglereef.com and want to try and get better identification. Any help appreciated. This first one, I picked up 5 frags. The coral is the Ice Blue Monastrea as pictured below.

Any help is appreciated.
Thanks,
Chris

 

[clsanchez77]

Any help at all?

 

[clsanchez77]

Any help?

 

[Hormigaquatica]

It is impossible to give an ID to the species level without viewing a bleached coralite under a microscope; even getting it to genus level will be tough. It might be Montastrea, but it could be one of any number of other Faviids as well.

 

[clsanchez77]

Well, thanks anyway

Chris