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MattD004
04/19/2007, 12:22 AM
Couple of my old brown outs are finally getting color back. Can you guys please id these?
http://i116.photobucket.com/albums/o8/MD004/DSC00432.jpg
http://i116.photobucket.com/albums/o8/MD004/DSC00458.jpg
http://i116.photobucket.com/albums/o8/MD004/DSC00429-1.jpg
dvanacker
04/19/2007, 08:28 AM
kinda looks like one to me. But I'll let other people chim in.
MattD004
04/19/2007, 01:17 PM
Over a 100 views and only one reply? Any input would be appreciated
robs fish
04/19/2007, 05:32 PM
Looks like one to me!
MattD004
04/19/2007, 06:24 PM
can the top one not be a a. tortusa as well?
hansnfrans
04/19/2007, 07:54 PM
Here's a couple links that fijiblue sent to me:

gomezi
http://whelk.aims.gov.au/coralsearch/html/901-1000/Species%20pages/922.htm

austera
http://www2.aims.gov.au/coralsearch/html/001-100/Species%20pages/10.htm
MattD004
04/19/2007, 08:13 PM
thanks for the link, but that makes it even tougher, they both are hard to distinguish
JackKerouac
04/20/2007, 12:10 AM
number 2 maybe a baby aculeus,but still to small to tell:)
hansnfrans
04/20/2007, 01:24 AM
judging by the fact that the radial corallites are pretty uniform in size, I'd rule out the A. austera. I think yours may be an A. gomezi.
MattD004
04/20/2007, 02:24 AM
Never heard of an aculeus.
1 and 3 are different corals, are they both gomezi?
1 is getting the blue tort colors, solid purplish blue with a green hue and green polyps