Acropora Tenius ?

b16drag · #1 10/20/2007, 11:48 AM

Got this coral a while back from a LFS and am trying to ID it. It looks like it might be a tenius. It has a brown base with greenish polyp, the branches are pinkish-cream in color with a change to purple and then yellow-greenish tips. The polyps are also white-green in color...

Any thoughts? It looks like it might not have been an aquacultured piece since there were sponges on the bottom of the base.

Under T5's (white balance corrected)

With moonlights

ianiwane · #2 10/20/2007, 01:04 PM

Its not a tenuis, looks to me like a valida.

JackKerouac · #3 10/20/2007, 07:12 PM

not a tenuis as ianiwane said,but to mee yours look like similar to A.secale

b16drag · #4 10/21/2007, 01:06 PM

Oh yes, Im pretty its an acropora secale. I know its not a Valida--because I have a tricolor Valida already.

Thanks for the help guys!

twon8 · #5 10/21/2007, 09:57 PM

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Originally posted by b16drag
Oh yes, Im pretty its an acropora secale. I know its not a Valida--because I have a tricolor Valida already.

Thanks for the help guys!

the whole valida grouping, valida, nana, secale, cerealis, are very hard to id, i'd agree yours is in that grouping