This wild acropora is starting to be one of my favorites - anyone care to ID it?

[psteeleb]

this acropora is growing on me - it's yellow with blue tips, the video color is off some as the yellow looks like it has a shade of green in it that shows up more in the video then real life

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[moisesderota]

looks like a tenuis to me...

 

[Nanook]

[moved]

 

[coralreefdoc]

Nice A. tenuis

Thats great youre having such success/growth from a wild specimen/colony, not many people can make that assertion !

 

[coonasssaint]

Great video!

 

[Frick]

Nice vid and sweet piece. It's not a tenius though. http://sdmas.com/corals/74.php

Since it is tabling i am going with hyacinthus http://sdmas.com/corals/36.php

 

[NVfishman]

im gonna go with tenius or vermiculata which is similar structure
but look more like Tenius which is more common in the hobby
Hyacinthus is way more fuzzy then this mine is almost as fuzzy as a millie
table would be much more dense structure branches are spaced to far

 

[klepto]

Lovely piece! Is it wild or cultured?

I agree that it resembles A. tenius. The corallites are clearly arranged in the rosette arrangement which points to a handfull of species (including A. tenius and A. hyacinthus)

To me, the morphology doesn't line up with A. hyacinthus. I'm not seeing the true tabling form. Also, the corallites have flaring lips and their overall shape would indicate A. tenuis in my opinion.

 

[Whisperer]

The radial coralites in the video do not form rosette, they are randomly distributed in the branches when viewed from the tip. I am leaning towards Selago.

 

[klepto]

The radial coralites in the video do not form rosette, they are randomly distributed in the branches when viewed from the tip. I am leaning towards Selago.

:hmm4: Huh? I couldn't disagree more. Look at focal point of the image. They are lined up perfectly.

 

[Frick]

Tenius

Hycinthus

Selago

Other possibilities;
Subulata

Latistella

Plasticpora