SPS ID help

[grayson]

anyone knows the ID of this SPS?

 

[grayson]

no one to help? I was told the color should be purple and some green.

 

[returnofsid]

It looks very similar to a coral I have, that I've been trying to ID for a couple of months now. I have received a couple tentative IDs on it. I'll post a picture. Let me know if you think they're the same and if so, I'll find the threads and let you know a couple different IDs I've been given. Mine is a deep blue and purple with white polyps.

 

[Frankenpora]

I would agree that they have some similarities, but the one on top
has a more compact coralite structure, and the coralites stay in
closer to the main body, whereas in the second coral the coralites
protrude alot more. Also the brances of the first are more stalky
and form a christmas tree shape. If you look at the upper most
coralites of the first pic, you can see that they have a horseshoe
shape, and the other has a very rounded tubular shape.
This is actually a wonderful example of why it is so hard to ID coral
I am confident that although these corals are similar at this stage
the colonies will look very different as they mature.

Sorry, I still don't have a good idea on the first one. Pretty corals.

 

[grayson]

thanks, returnofsid. they look similar but probably different.

 

[grayson]

thanks Frankenpora, I like the words "Pretty corals." ^_^

 

[Superstretch18]

This is one of the best sites that I've ever found if you are trying to find the actual species name of a particular acropora:

http://www.coralsee.org/ID/id.html

 

[grayson]

<a href=showthread.php?s=&postid=15004049#post15004049 target=_blank>Originally posted</a> by Superstretch18
This is one of the best sites that I've ever found if you are trying to find the actual species name of a particular acropora:

http://www.coralsee.org/ID/id.html

thanks. very nice website. but i don't know the geographic location of my sps.

 

[grayson]

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