Unknown Acro from LiveAquaria

Dexters Reef

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Hi,

I bought this coral from a seller who labelled it as a "Fiji Mint Bushy Acropora"

I tried to get the exact name of the coral, but the seller told me they got it from Live Aquaria and they did not remember the exact species. Attached is the photo from Live Aquaria, and what it looks like in my tank now. I took pics under 14K halides, and pics under the halides with the T5 from my sig so you could see the difference in colors. When I got it it was bleached very badly, but has nearly fully recovered, and I have a lot of new growth since I got it 2 months ago.

Any ideas? You can see in the stock picture it was a mostly "vertical coral" and since I got it, it has filled in nicely and the branches have been growing horizontally.
 
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Here are 2 pics from the day I got it, so you can see how bad the color was at first =(

Over a few months it has regained a lot of its color, and looks great in person now! Just wondering what it is
 
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I would say secale is pretty close for now.
http://coral.aims.gov.au/speciesPages/species_metadata/0062/view#
0062_C1_08.jpg


I would worry more about getting good water flow to the entire colony than light. Make sure it gets enough in the middle or you could see some tissue recession.
 
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