Unknown SPS I.D. if possible

Jrmass

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My friends and I have searched for an ID on this coral for going on a month now. The person that I bought it from never tried to ID it he was just fragging it and selling them to whoever would buy. Now he has left the hobby so I bought what was left of the colony. This coral has the strangest branching I've personally ever seen or heard of as the branches go SIDEWAYS instead of the typical up and down. This could have been from the current he had in his tank but, I have upcurrent under it and it's still growing sideways.

I have 7 pictures posted here of the coral and if anyone needs some other kind of an angle I'm sure I can get it.

http://s99.photobucket.com/albums/l316/Jrmass/125 Gallon Salt Water Setup/2-27-08 SPS Coral/

Any ideas would be great as I'm quite stumped on where to look next.

Jason M
 
There are a few options I have concidered but wasn't sure if it was or wasn't... The one's I had concidered were
Anacropora forbesi
Anacropora matthai

Any ideas if this could be correct?
 
After looking at a few pics here online I think you might be right...

If anyone else has any opinions I'll definately look them over but, I think you may have hit this one on the head BLKTANG.
 
I would tend to the Anacropora, but, as the foto is not that close-up, it could be from the Montipora stellata group, but the corallites look a bit to big and prominent. Anacropora forbesi would be my top guess.
 
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