my unknown green table Acropora

[Gary Majchrzak]

see discussion here and I'll post some pix here in the SPS Forum. FWIW I've grown efflos in the past in this same aquarium.

I don't believe this is a green efflo

this coral is really thick

 

[x2uranium]

VERY nice Gary

 

[Pineapple House]

The fact that it's branching means it could be an Acropora solitaryensis.

Graham

 

[nvdiz]

w/e it is, it's a great looking piece. Good job!

 

[myroom]

wow never seen a green one great looking very unusual.

 

[29reef]

The left side is really looking good, the right side not so much growth there anymore. I would agree with Graham and say soli, but there's several other tabling acros that come in that it could be. How long has it been in captivity Gary? I'm guessing that you were the first owner of the coral? I agree that it's not a run of the mill coral.

Edit: After talking a second look at the photo from the underside, it does have some standard efflo characteristic shape and coralite structure. Any chance someone else has grown out this coral?

 

[ousnakebyte]

Hmmm... Efflo x Soli hybrid....?



(I honestly have no idea if these two will actually hybridize.)

 

[Big E]

I'd say soli.........they can grow in many different patterns based on flow. Intermittant flow will give you long branchlets. Heavier flow the edges are more compact. If you hit it with a lot of flow from above it will grow a lot of those nodules.

 

[Dynamic_Reef]

dont think its a soli could be wrong but soli tend to have several layers to them here is mine outta water bad pic though but ya can see what i mean


IMAG0355-1 by dynamicreef, on Flickr


IMAG0208-1-1 by dynamicreef, on Flickr

 

[Uglyman]

Hi

I have a green tabling acro I picked up from my LFS here in Australia that looks exactly the same as yours, I have had it for 3 months now and it is doing really well. Never had a chance to get it identified yet.

 

[MammothReefer]

It's an soli. Most people for tend to try to differentiate efflos from solis based on the growth single tear, branching/non-branching, multi tear (laying). Both Solis and Efflos can do this. You need to look at is the corallites. Efflos have tubular straight cut edged corallites, solis have round corallites

Efflo

Soli

 

[acroholicreefer]

Acropora Clathrata?

http://sdmas.com/corals/18.php

 

[MBIETZ]

Thats an awesome coral.

 

[Pallobi]

very nice gary

+1

 

[sunshinereefer]

Awesome coral..leaning more towards Efflo !!

 

[ousnakebyte]

What this really demonstrates is the difficulties in coral taxonomy. Here we have a fairly large colony (for aquarium standards, small by wild standards), and it is difficult to be sure.

For all those who want their 1/2" fresh-cut frag ID'd....................

 

[Pallobi]

For all those who want their 1/2" fresh-cut frag ID'd....................

right!! lol...

 

[Gary Majchrzak]

What this really demonstrates is the difficulties in coral taxonomy. Here we have a fairly large colony (for aquarium standards, small by wild standards), and it is difficult to be sure.

For all those who want their 1/2" fresh-cut frag ID'd....................

exactly.

For all those wanting their 1/2" frag ID'd they should research the plasticity of coral growth habits. I've seen frags from the same exact mother colony grow into both stags and tables. Environmental conditions play a HUGE role in growth habit. Fun hearing all the guesses here, though. More importantly, I wanted to share pix of this unique Acroporiid with you SPS nutz.

 

[29reef]

So where's these other odd growth form of this acro...?

 

[Gary Majchrzak]

So where's these other odd growth form of this acro...?

good question! However, I wasn't referring to this specific Acropora in my previous post. I was referring to ALL Acroporiids