so i've grown this out from a frag, any guesses?

[twon8]

it has blue polyps and is more purple than the pics are able to convey

 

[boobookitty]

Hard to tell from closeups (at least for me), but looks like a Purple Monster. Here's mine (crappy pic):

 

[Oldude]

I'll guess maybe a variety of A. variolosa

 

[coralfarm123]

I will guess A. verweyi

 

[surfnvb7]

my guess is granulosa.....but i've never seen a granulosa w/ blue polyps before....

 

[mpoletti]

Depends on your flow, but maybe a globiceps or possibly an austera.

 

[boobookitty]

Variolosa has much sharper corallites, no? Doesn't look like verweyi to me either. I think globicep corallites are more cup-shaped.

The more I look the more I think it's acropora loripes.

Regardless, it's quite nice.

 

[twon8]

<a href=showthread.php?s=&postid=11437190#post11437190 target=_blank>Originally posted</a> by Marko9
Depends on your flow, but maybe a globiceps or possibly an austera.

I've got a few austera, it is actually right next to one now and it's pretty distinct from them. Acropora variolosa is endemic to the red sea and east africa near madagasca; pretty sure the frag came off a wild colony from indo. Maybe globiceps, but I don't know that it could thicken up that much, and my flow is pretty high, so i would expect a good deal of thickening if this were the sp. Verweyi is close, but I im leaning towards loripes, with granulosa and longicyathus as other possibilities high on the list. I think the next few months should tell the tale.

thanks for the help, keep them coming.