Is this a 'purple monster acropora'?

[Rossini]

6th photo down

http://www.ultimatereef.net/forums/showthread.php?t=227742&highlight=photos&page=26

Slow grower. Seems to need lots of light, and flow. I've had it for 18 months. It was a wild colony.

There is some more photos of it on the next page and page after that.

Please let me know what you guys think.

 

[aquariumclown]

I think others will concur. Although a very nice looking wild colony, that is not a purple monster, both structure and color are very different. I don't believe the purple monster exists in the wild anymore.

 

[aaron1987]

As Aquariumclown noted, the growth is entirely different from the purple monster. My purple monster looks like your typical deep water acro in terms of long, smooth branches, certainly not knobby like that.

 

[aquariumclown]

You should also post your picture to the sps ID forum to identify that colony. Lots of good people there will help id it.

http://reefcentral.com/forums/forumdisplay.php?forumid=482

 

[Nanook]

[moved]

 

[ReefWreak]

Nothing personal, but it isn't "Purple Monster" unless you bought it from the lineage of THE "Purple Monster."

It can be a look alike, but I get really irate when people take a wild or unknown coral and just give it the same name as a coral with lineage, and then try to pass it off as that lineage or that coral. Just because it looks like a certain named coral in your tank doesn't mean that it'll carry over the same coloration and whatnot in another tank. That's the difference, is that when someone buys a "named" coral with lineage, they know what it will look like and what to expect. I know you didn't do that, but that's the next step that many people take, the liberty of transferring "named" status to a unnamed/wild/random/unknown coral.

If you did find a coral that looks similar to Purple Monster, that's awesome, and congratulations. I've seen PM in a friend's tank, and it's a beautiful coral, so if you've got a similar looking one for a fraction of the "named" price, definitely congratulations.

 

[rigleautomotive]

i hope you dont mind i posted the pic for you.definitely a nice coral,but not a PM without lineage.

 

[Rossini]

Cheers guys.

 

[Frankenpora]

Although it is not the PM as mentioned, It is certainly equal in quality IMO. It's a keeper