rare coral ID
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Topic: rare coral ID
Posted By: juanjose
Subject: rare coral ID
Date Posted: January 23 2014 at 10:55pm
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I kinda have a general idea of what this acro is but wanted to hear what you guys thought.
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Posted By: wickedsnowman
Date Posted: January 24 2014 at 3:07pm
| It's pretty much impossible to ID a acro name wise unless you have the lineage. very cool looking though |
Posted By: ReefdUp
Date Posted: January 24 2014 at 3:38pm
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I will be home in a bit and can look up a few species possibilities. With most Acroporas, it is hard to know for sure down to the species level without knowing where it was collected or how the mother colony looked in the wild. Our artificial environments can create great difficulty in IDing since the flow is different...which makes the growth patterns vary. If you ever had a piece die, bleach the skeleton...we could get a pretty decent guess then based on the corallite structure. ------------- www.reefdup.com Diving since 2009, reefkeeping since 2007, & fishkeeping since 1987 200g, 75g, & 15g Systems PADI Advanced Open Water |
Posted By: ReefdUp
Date Posted: January 25 2014 at 9:14pm
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The growth form doesn't match the corallite structure, so I'm going to guess the growth is unnaturally caused by flow/light. I'd need a better photo of the corallites to get a better ID. Some complete WAG's: A. proximalis A. parilis A. exquisita What were you thinking it was? The best Acropora ID person I know is KologneKoral on ReefCentral if you really want to know. ------------- www.reefdup.com Diving since 2009, reefkeeping since 2007, & fishkeeping since 1987 200g, 75g, & 15g Systems PADI Advanced Open Water |
Posted By: juanjose
Date Posted: January 25 2014 at 9:38pm
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its called true Keeperz spaghetti acro. I got mine from joe keeper. it is supposed to grow like that. that's why its so attractively strange. now the scientific name no idea what so ever. ------------- Turning lemonaid into lemons since 1994. |
Posted By: willstang
Date Posted: January 25 2014 at 10:38pm
| Who's Joe Keeper? |
Posted By: ReefdUp
Date Posted: January 25 2014 at 10:55pm
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I just googled it, and your growth pattern is different than the other images I found. Some look like A. selago. Without seeing a better corallite structure, that is about the best it will get. ------------- www.reefdup.com Diving since 2009, reefkeeping since 2007, & fishkeeping since 1987 200g, 75g, & 15g Systems PADI Advanced Open Water |
Posted By: fishnfresh
Date Posted: January 26 2014 at 2:40am
| Think someone else in salt lake has it cant remember who there is a post about it on think reef2reef I've seen it sell from $40-$60 a frag this one has some crazy growth too it pretty cool. |
Posted By: juanjose
Date Posted: January 26 2014 at 9:24am
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yah I really like the growth pattern I have been getting on it. and joe keeper used to be pretty big on reef2reef. kinda fell of the earth though. ------------- Turning lemonaid into lemons since 1994. |
Posted By: suiso man
Date Posted: February 01 2014 at 3:55pm
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the growth pattern is a different but it does look like joe's spaghetti acro |