Please positively ID this sweet piece of blue for me.......

[flyyyguy]

I know ive been misidentifying this....

I picked it up from a guy breaking down a tank after my crash last year. it was the color of a dark brown turd. He told me it was soemthing special at the time, I cant remember specifically as i bpought tons of corals after my accidetn and i simply lost trrack of some..............but i think he said it was either a LE or from atlantis or soemthing like that......cant remember and cant get a hold of him....

It took many months for his words to come true as far as it really being all that sweet, adn then just when it was just starting to look incredible I bleached it letting my nutrients get too low and a lighting upgrade........it getting it back again though.

first pic earlier this year............second pic just the other day.

under straight 10k lighting

Thanks for any help

ps- I can take and get soem better pics of the colony up if you need them

 

[fittiger]

Uh...I could probably ID it better if you sent me a frag Just too hard to tell with just a photograph.

 

[Atomikk]

From that angle it may seem that it is A. tenuis.. but I could be wrong.

 

[flyyyguy]

thanks for the replies. is surely no tenius.....

anyone else??

 

[Kolognekoral]

Bill, you're right, it is not A. tenuis. The fotos are not showing all the details one needs to make a good ID, but it does resemble A. samoensis. There is a group of similar corals, that need to be matured to really tell them appart, such as A. bushyensis, A. chesterfieldensis, A ocellata en Co. If yours continues with this finer digitate 'branching', then I would expect it is A. bushyebsis.

Hope this helps a bit.

 

[flyyyguy]

Thanks jamie.

I will get soem full colony pics up that might help..

you at least gave me a direction to look for on aims as well.

unfailiar with all of the species you listed there except the chester...which I think I can rule out as I have had a couple(i think...lol) and the corallites are much more knobby on the chesters. knobby is a scientific term isnt it?? LOL

Thanks for the input...Ill get some more pics when im back in town next week.