Please ID this Acropora

[ormet]

I dont usually care about species but this latest piece i acquired i really would want to know.

It is maricultured from Bali.

Please note that the tips are really yellow, my phone camera could not capture that.

br
Daniel

 

[Frick]

Possibly Acropora carduus. There has bee a few of those being maricultured and spread through out the world lately. Not that the color matters when IDing a species but the other mariculturd A. carduus I have seen have yellow tips as well.
http://coral.aims.gov.au/factsheet.jsp?speciesCode=0014

 

[ormet]

Thanks Frick.

I guess you need some macro shots to be sure?

 

[Frick]

Thanks Frick.

I guess you need some macro shots to be sure?

Actually time will be the factor. It will all depend on how it grows as a colony that really determines a certain ID.