Need help with proper ID please

rickerman1 · Mar 9, 2013

Would love for some of the sps pros here to help me with some proper ID of a few sps

another pic under full lighting

not the greatest pictures but hopefully good enough this one is a tabling sps

another shot of it

and one more

this one is a really nice blue color

Thankyou for your help

rickerman1 · Mar 9, 2013

here are a few more I would love a Id for

I really like this one

another

I believe this one is a monitpora confusa?

The picture does this one on justice

Frick · Mar 10, 2013

The first is too small to even guess. It has pocket like corallites but there is nothing else to distinguish it. It will have to grow out to get a better idea.

The second I am thinking maybe Acropora cytherea.
http://coral.aims.gov.au/speciesPages/species_metadata/0020/view#

The third is a hydnophora, possibly rigida.
http://coral.aims.gov.au/speciesPages/species_metadata/0217/view#

The forth is a Montipora, if it plates upward then it could actually be a real capricornis. The texture is there for M. capricornis.
http://coral.aims.gov.au/speciesPages/species_metadata/0268/view#

Frick · Mar 10, 2013

For the next set;

There is not much to go by on the firts one either. Maybe a segment of Acropora formosa.
http://coral.aims.gov.au/speciesPages/species_metadata/0029/view#

The second is too small to say for sure.

The third maybe Acropora granulosa if it keeps growing the tips that are on the right of the pic and tables out. Too small to say for sure.
http://coral.aims.gov.au/speciesPages/species_metadata/0033/view#

The forth might be M. confusa. M. confusa will be start to branch upward and when it does it will develop flame-like ridges.
http://coral.aims.gov.au/speciesPages/species_metadata/0458/view#

The last one could be Acropora valida growing with thinner branches.
http://coral.aims.gov.au/speciesPages/species_metadata/0077/view#