Brian Chong
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what do you think Isseym328, navini or gomezi?
Soo...who managed to snatch this piece?
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what do you think Isseym328, navini or gomezi?
Brian Chong
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a navini image from veron
Brian Chong
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fijiblue
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Im sorry, but it is a navini - they are all from the same cultured stock that Bali has. Over the last 7 years, their cultured species have stayed the same - almost all from the same brood stock.
Navini, austera, tortosa and gomezi's are all very similar in growth pattern and get confused often.
Atomikk
SPS OG
Its not only corallites, but also the groth formation of the coral that you should look at when trying to identify them. Ex, A. navini grows in a bushy formation, while A gomezi has stag like branches. The corallites are very similar, but the growth is much different.
Atomikk
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Sure... lets completely disregard the actual description of A. navini and go with what people in Bali culture.
I am not doing that.
Brian Chong
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With all of you and reefcentral as my witnesses, i am officially giving up on id'ing acros.
SDguy, I was a tort, austera guy but i think your gomezi has started another love affair
SDguy, I was a tort, austera guy but i think your gomezi has started another love affair
arioch
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I don't know about a "dime" and a "dozen" but online retailers have been lowering prices on good-sized frags now. $30 an inch of the aussie echinata?
Yes please.
http://www.madfragsonline.com/joomla/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=59&Itemid=55
arioch
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The description and the skeleton photo pretty well matches the colony in the picture, however?
Also the navini described has a bushy form and your sekiseiensis seems to have more of a different, staghorn form.
Brian Chong
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they are lowering the prices because they're so common now that you dont have to go inline to find them, at least where i am at, that is.
Brian Chong
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they are all baby pictures though and the veron pics are of colonies, but whatever, i dont id corals anymore
Atomikk
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In very simplistic terms:
navini: bushy
seki: not bushy, stag-like
The picture in this thread showed of one that forms stag-like branches. Therefore it is quite simple to say that it is a A. seki. In fact, I have both at home and they are quite different once they reach colony size.
navini: bushy
seki: not bushy, stag-like
The picture in this thread showed of one that forms stag-like branches. Therefore it is quite simple to say that it is a A. seki. In fact, I have both at home and they are quite different once they reach colony size.
Hehe, thanks. But you can still consider yourself a tort guy, since it ended up looking like a tort!
SPSEMPIRE
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I've got a green/yellow colored acro that I'm pretty sure is a navini... I didn't think they came in purple/blue.
And FWIW, my "gomezi" maricultured ended up looking pretty different after a few years...
April 2007:
May 2010:
January 2011:
Yep, these are good and accurate pictures of an acropora gomezi. The first picture at the start of this thread doesn't look like a gomezi.
fijiblue
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Im not disregarding the actual coral description...the coral is not A. sekiseiensis - the coralites are not even close to being the same (rounded) as the OP's picture. Also, you are basing your guess off of pictures of much larger wild colonies - the coral shown is a budding and completely different in growth pattern. This has been called a navini for a very long time - even well reputable shops who deal with more acros in a day than you and I see in year ID it as just that. Im not saying corals don't get mislabeled as we have seen this often in Bali, but in this case - this appears not to be one of them.
CheckitOut
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Sorry I had to get that one. I've been waiting to get a nice sized one for cheaper than what they were going for.
Atomikk
SPS OG
You must have missed the part where I stated that I have both corals in question, so I am not making a guess. Secondly, I see more corals shipped into our city than the average reefer, so I do know what gets cultured and packaged en masse. Often then not, people in Bali do not know the exact latin name for a coral species. Most of them give assumptions. They do not take the time to get it right. I know this, as I have imported corals myself. So I take everything what people say from Bali with a lot of salt.
We can discuss this through infinity, but I rather let the reefer who wants to know the ID to make his choice. I only can show them what I know and have experienced. I do not gain anything from this, except for feeling good that I have helped a fellow reefer out.
