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RCS
12/18/2005, 08:25 PM
What are your thoughts? Looks to have a similar growth pattern (though different colors) to this guy:

http://www.reeffarmers.com/limitedrainbow.htm

http://reefcentral.com/gallery/data/500/81760unknown_acrob.jpg

Not sure...similar, but the corallites seem closer together on the rosaria...but definitely similar.
cee
12/18/2005, 09:02 PM
Looks like a tenuis to me. Rosaria's radials tend to be bead-like, where tenuis' have "slightly flaring lips" and are arranged in a rosette. Also, the axial on yours is elongate, which is not a characteristic of rosaria.

Dave
RCS
12/18/2005, 10:26 PM
I think the corallites are too bulbuous to be tenuis, and the top is rounded rather than squared off. I've never seen these colors on a tenuis either...but I may be wrong.

I kind of enjoy the "guess the acro" game.
EvilMel
12/19/2005, 10:01 AM
Don't know what that is Fred but it shore is purdy.
kali77
12/19/2005, 10:05 AM
Almost looks like the Cali or Ora Tort. It is tough to say until it grows out some.

Kali
RCS
12/19/2005, 11:11 AM
It's small right now...hopefully I'll be able to tell what it is one of these days!

Mel, it is a very nice piece...picked it up at the frag swap in Cincy. Was one of only three acro frags I thought worth buying, if that says anything.
LeftCoast
12/20/2005, 12:53 AM
To me, it looks like A. verweyi. ReeferMadness has had some similar colonies recently. But I don't believe it to be either A. tenuis or A. rosaria.
LeftCoast
12/20/2005, 12:54 AM
You can click my homepage button for Veron's CoralSearch if you want to compare his photos of the species.
RCS
12/20/2005, 09:07 AM
Spiff, I think you may be on to something there...isn't this fun? Hopefully when i grows out more it may have some more distinguishing characteristics.
LeftCoast
12/20/2005, 02:18 PM
Too true. A frag's corallites are pretty obscure anyway.
RCS
01/24/2006, 10:12 AM
I think I might have found a winner, if their ID can be counted on to be accurate. It was one of the my original thoughts though I never really ran with it: Acropora vaughani:

http://www.atlantisaquarium.net/images/acropellpurp2.jpg
EvilMel
01/24/2006, 10:40 AM
I love frags from that place. I would totally not mind ordering some stuff from them. They are so cool looking.

But as far as your ID goes...I'm not too sure. In the picture from Atlantis it looks like the tips of the coral sorta tuck in. But in yours it looks like they are rounded a bit. Does this matter? Just curious about it.
RCS
01/24/2006, 10:46 AM
Does it matter? Maybe, maybe not. I don't have a clue, honestly. Could be a function of its size (mine's a 1.5" frag compared to a full colony) or water flow, lighting, growth pattern...

This is part of what makes it fun...and what makes it next to impossible to ID a lot of corals sometimes.