Need an ID, please!

[iwishtofish]

Is anyone familiar with this coral? I picked it up yesterday.

 

[Oldude]

to me it looks like montipora confusa

 

[iwishtofish]

Hey, it does! I never would have found that...thanks.

 

[rleechb]

M. Spongodes

 

[iwishtofish]

OK, now I'm confused...

I looked that one up, and now it really looks like it could be either. The color is more along the lines of the Confusa, although I know color varies within species.

 

[JackKerouac]

<a href=showthread.php?s=&postid=10752292#post10752292 target=_blank>Originally posted</a> by Oldude
to me it looks like montipora confusa

ditto I think the same M.confusa

 

[iwishtofish]

Thanks for the input from everyone - I hope to see more posts/opinions!

I did a little reading online, and one site ( http://www.reeffarmers.com/limitedmontiporaconfusa.htm )suggests that the M. Confusa is relative rare and is a hard coral to keep.

The LFS SPS keeper that sold me this coral told me it grows fairly rapidly.

 

[JackKerouac]

I have it under 400w 10000k° and is not so slow at all ,maybe in the natural filtration system of reeffarmers and under a 20000k° the things are different

 

[bwest]

<a href=showthread.php?s=&postid=10754848#post10754848 target=_blank>Originally posted</a> by rleechb
M. Spongodes

I second Spongodes.

 

[XSiVE]

Here's my Confusa

based on the images out there of Spongodes though, I'm torn on which it could be.

 

[SuperNerd]

why not vietnamesis?