Time to play "Name that Acro!!"

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Hey contestants.....I have had this acro for quite some time and got it really browned out at exotic months ago.

Since then its turned into my favorite "ugly" acro. The thing has really impressed me living on the bottom half of the tank under 150MHs and growing. It is a brown-peach in color, purple tips, and a lighter blue polyp when out.

Does anyone know what this is? Like I said I have had it for months and a great little trooper, I'd like to know the name if anyone has a clue. Below is an older pic....I can get another if need, but more or less looks the same. Its a little more vivid now.

 

[Sparkss]

kewl coral, love the blue polyps, afraid I have no idea what it is though. Makes you wonder what it would look like if you could put it under higher intensity lighting

 

[CaliforniaDreamer]

Looks kinda like Acropora granulosa, but then I think everything is Acropora granulosa.

 

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Hey check out this link and see the purple efflo, looks like a smaller version, but very simmilar in colors
http://www.coraldynamics.com/acropora2.asp

 

[Justin74]

the growth characteristics rule out the efflo, my first guess was a tenuis or formosa, but Im like you John they all start to look like a handfull of names I know.... I think a distinguishing growth pattern to help you look is it does have a conical shape of branches, one thing hard about it is, on some it doesnt have a prominant lower lip on its radial coralites, while others it does :/ Maybe the ones that dont are axial coralites forming into new branches if so, only time will tell.

The coral research sight on our MARS websight will help you with about as far as your gonna be able to go with, browsing through the sight at the various species of Acropora and all there similarities will give you an idea of how grand the scale is of how hard an ID is. Short of having an anatomical background in coral biology with the ability to distinguish ID's by there skeleton .

Right now the only thing I do know for a fact about it is it's a pretty Purpleus Tippus Sp.

-Justin