Rusty-brown Acro with green hue, not sure of actual type.

[redfishsc]

Here are a couple of pics of a small acro frag I picked up locally I'm trying to ID. Normally I would not pic up a frag of something I am not familiar with, but there are too many acro types for me to carry a mental picture of them all.

Anyhow, I bought it knowing the needs of SPS, and the tank has a very happy millepora and several weed-like frags of monti cap. My tank params are below if you'd like to see them.


The pics colors are just about right, perhaps add in a touch more greenish hue to it. The polyps don't extend a lot, about all you see in the pic is all it did at the LFS. The fish is an average-to-small size Gramma, just for size comparison.

Tank: homemade tank, basically a 10g
Lights: 96W of T5 (420 actinic, 460 blue, 10,000K and 14,000K)

all nitrogen, incl. nitrate---- 0 (thanks to a huge chaeto fuge)
PO4-- 0 on an API kit.
SG- 35ppt
KH- 9-10
Calc--- 420

I don't test magnesium at this point, I'll get around to it eventually.

 

[redfishsc]

hmmm.... anyone?

 

[SunnyX]

Looks almost like a funny growing tort coral.

Looks like a great coral. It should be fun watching the coral color up!

 

[redfishsc]

You're the second person to say that about the growth pattern, which is a big reason I bought it.

I think the color is about what it's going to be (it has more green than the pic shows). Then again, I bought some beautiful green palys that quickly turned dark brown after I bought them, and the palys they still have from the same batch are dark brown (same LFS).

 

[toothman]

sure looks like it is a ORA/cali tort.

 

[redfishsc]

I was told by the LFS that it wasn't an ORA, but then again, who really knows.?

It's doing great in my tank, it's not been long enough to grow yet, but the polyps seem alive and active and the color is greening up a bit more.