Monti ID

[jjmcat]

I've grown this from a 1 inch branch.

 

[schroder_reef]

Do you remember where you got it? It may be the purple polyped montipora capitata or a montipora verrucosa. Hard to say though.

 

[jjmcat]

I got it at a LFS that's no longer in business.Here is a pic of it when I first bought it.

 

[Frankenpora]

Cool I want one

 

[ssavader]

Montipora setosa (?)

 

[myzislow]

Purple polyped montipora verrucosa would be my guess. I have one very similar. Yours is awesome!

 

[jjmcat]

<a href=showthread.php?s=&postid=13283050#post13283050 target=_blank>Originally posted</a> by Frankenpora
Cool I want one

Thanks I wish I could see more to compare it to.

 

[jjmcat]

<a href=showthread.php?s=&postid=13314638#post13314638 target=_blank>Originally posted</a> by myzislow
Purple polyped montipora verrucosa would be my guess. I have one very similar. Yours is awesome!

Thanks,I have 2 allmost alike now.They grow at a decent rate.The higher I have this the more yellow it becomes.This is it when It was about 4 inches below the surface.

 

[schroder_reef]

Im thinking verrucosa too, the other I mentioned doesnt branch.

 

[dave pugh]

I think it is M. capitata as the verrucae are fused at the end of the branch tips.

 

[jjmcat]

I read where the M. capitata are from the Hawaii area.

 

[dave pugh]

In Veron books, he says common in Hawaii and uncommon elsewhere.

In UK one of the frag suppliers sells them.

I had one these in my last tank, however I lost the main colony during the transfer over to my new tank. On the positive side I have noticed that a little frag has appeared that must have been left on the LR has starting to grow. So all is not lost.

On delivery the colouration of the frags is the same the picture i.e. light/purple polyps as in the picture. They then tend to turn a lime green. This has happened to myself and I know other people. I am guessing that too much much light causing the colour change. I never bothered moving the colony to find out as I preferred the lime green colour.