Need a Id on this acro if possible.

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I got this acro frag from a friend. It is a trial acro to see if I can get him to grown and thrive in my tank since I've never kept hard corals before. He told me the name but I forgot and would like to research it. For a while it was all brown with what looked like brown polyps now out of no where the polyps are turning green. So I don't know if it's good or a bad thing.

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I'm terrible at Acro IDs but I throw out a guess since it looks like Tricolor Acro. Acropora valida but evolved or Frick would be better at IDing this one.
 

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LOL! Sorry Gabe!
 

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Lol! I know right. I'm trying to learn though.

Haha!

I think you're right on the species.... tricolor or bonsai maybe. But then again, without lineage to the named colony it is just an acro....
 

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It's soooo hard to ID small frags like this, especially when they're in recovery. But I think A. valida is as good of a guess as any right now; that'd be my pick.
 

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