Name this acro for me please :)

little_d · #1 10/02/2007, 08:57 PM

Got a few frags of this for the swap but I don't know the name of it.

Thanks
Anthony

funman1 · #2 10/02/2007, 09:36 PM

Cali tort?

edsimmons · #3 10/02/2007, 09:37 PM

A. nana?

eagleONE · #4 10/02/2007, 09:53 PM

I would say nana also

robertloop · #5 10/02/2007, 10:04 PM

A nana all the way. Got three heads in my tank.

airinhere · #6 10/02/2007, 10:21 PM

Maybe A. Valida.
Nana has more elongated polyps than that.
Valida usually has more tightly packed polyps though...

pbetito · #7 10/02/2007, 10:29 PM

Thats the nana. It's one of my favorites and I have a colony from Xia and a colony from Prodman and they both are matches to that one!

dots · #8 10/02/2007, 10:41 PM

Both are what I would guess on, leaning towards valida. The best thing to do is research the lineage for concensus. It appears to be a tri color so the popular ones I would start with. GARF Tricolor is an old one which is a valida.

Try this:
http://whelk.aims.gov.au/coralsearch...20pages/50.htm

http://whelk.aims.gov.au/coralsearch...20pages/77.htm

azurea is another closely related one. Given the size of the frag, and the distance from the piece its hard to tell for certain, but without disecting a piece of it, it is difficult to tell with any certainty. Morphology from tank to tank is another factor.

If you post it on the SPS Id forum, you will probably come up with the common ones we have mentioned, but would be interesting to see what else is suggested.

At the very least, it has nice coloration, good job!!

dots · #9 10/02/2007, 10:46 PM

This one is "supposed" to be a nana for reference. EagleONE is slated to take this under their "wing" soon hopefully.

robertloop · #10 10/03/2007, 12:19 AM

I have a couple few nana colonies. One of them has tighter pack polyps like the images abouve and the other is growing fast and looks like the thread starters images. morphology does play a big role as stated. Lemme dig up some photos of mine.

robertloop · #11 10/03/2007, 12:24 AM

Lower left corner is an older pic of the main colony... I'll try and take a newer one tomorrow...

Well. I dont have a scientific source to give me concrete evidence that this is indeed nana. I was told this by a few fellow reefers is all. So.... I could be wrong.

dots · #12 10/03/2007, 01:17 AM

The one on the bottom right looks like a possibliity, the one center looks like another specie. The longer, irregular coralites is what makes me think so. Which one, can't be sure.

The reason I say, is that there are like 130 different ones and we only hear of a few dozen names being thrown around, which makes me suspicious if we are correct.

Try this, this is where the above came from and is the online version of the JEN Vernon, Corals of the World Book.

http://whelk.aims.gov.au/coralsearch/coralid_search.php

robertloop · #13 10/03/2007, 02:47 PM

"there are like 130 different ones and we only hear of a few dozen names being thrown around"

Yeah. Marine biologists scoff at us reefers for not viewing the dead skeleton under a microscope to determine specie.

In my image... lower left and upper right are two heads of the same original colony. The center is some unidentified table acro (pinkish) that I killed when I moved the tank. The tan stag in middle is still alive..