Yellow Montipora digitata?

[Navyblue]

It was sold to me as "yellow birdnest". But it looks like Montipora digitata to me.

 

[Frick]

It's birdnest, aka Seriatopora caliendrum
http://coral.aims.gov.au/speciesPages/species_metadata/0341/view#

 

[reeffreak75]

That's a green birdsnest...

 

[Navyblue]

It's birdnest, aka Seriatopora caliendrum
http://coral.aims.gov.au/speciesPages/species_metadata/0341/view#

Thanks. It does look like it.

The polyps look similar to digitata's to me. How could you tell it is a birdnest? The shape of the branches?

 

[Navyblue]

That's a green birdsnest...

In person, it look pastel yellow. The tips are greenish under 20000K MH. You think this would turn green?

 

[tedca]

It is a Seriatopora caliendrum they comes in different colors. Pink, green, white with green tips etc.
Their is also another "birdnest" aka seriatopora hysterix. That one has sharper tips than your calendrium.

Yours are not the all green calendrium.

Montiporas does not have polyps on top of their growth tips.

Watch this for different colors of calendrium
http://www.google.com/search?q=Seri...JiyBKuO4gSJz4Eo&ved=0CCAQsAQ&biw=1680&bih=914

 

[Navyblue]

Thanks, that's what I needed to know.