Sps id?????

[kindler]

Need help I have no idea and have been looking everywhere. It has sand like skeleton and mouths on the tips of the branches that seem to be feeding. Looking at a broken branch shows that it has a hollow tube all the way down the branches.

Sorry for the poor pics no DSLR.

It is very different to say the least. Please help!!

Thanks,
Scott

 

[kindler]

Does anyone have a guess????

Thanks,
Scott

 

[Atomikk]

could be A. horrida

 

[Kolognekoral]

Scott,
I think you have a Montipora, there. I see no axial corallites, plus the coenosteum is full of fine spinules, which you do not see in Acropora. It may be M. hispida. This group og Montis form a heavy base and then produce upright branches. M. cactus is another possibility. I've never seen this colour, though.

I was thinking of Anacropora, but, again, the spinules do not fit the genus.

Hope this helps,

Jamie

 

[Softhammer]

I second that. Its definitely a montipora as mentioned above. Very cool find, I haven't seen any of those in captivity.

 

[kindler]

Thanks all for the help! It has changed color a little bit now since I have had it, green / purple. The tips and all the rough sandy surface areas have gone light greenish and purple inside of them. Looks real cool and has better polyp extension now, but still very small. I have it in around 200-250 par under 15k halide w/450nm actinic and it seems to be doing great besides the little fight it had with my Red Planet and lost!!

Where would be a place I could send a cutting to try and get an official I.D.?

Thanks,
Scott