I've not seen this acro before, any ideas?

[Redrosetuscan]

I picked this oz beauty up today, I've never seen one before. In water it looks blue btw and I'm sure that colour will change.

I guess it's a deepwater, I have seen similar colonies diving in fiji at between 25-30m

Any ideas on care?

 

[SaltyWalter]

Are you sure its an acropora? Is it one of the porites species?

Can you take a picture underwater in only white lights?

 

[Redrosetuscan]

I'm fairly sure it's an acro, it's got sparse polyps like a deepwater.

I'll try and do a pic but I am the worst photographer ever :spin1:

 

[SaltyWalter]

lol just a picture with no blue lights on, will be able to see better structure.

 

[SaltyWalter]

Out of all 170 acroporas on this ID site, none are close.

http://coral.aims.gov.au/info/factsheets.jsp

Click acropora genus and the species will all drop down

 

[Tweaked]

lol, your hand is also blue under water. That is one strange specimen you got there, I have also never seen anything like that. I will say its stony, and looks to be small polyp. As far as id, well I gonna have to look a bit more.

 

[Tweaked]

Ok, so i get some images like the below when searching for acropora sp. deep water. That is very cool if you ask me.

 

[Tweaked]

did it come from the cooling beds at Chernobyl :spin2: