Acro and Monti ID Help

[KLR]

I have been watching both of these pieces "bake" at my lfs for about 4 months. They both grow very slow.
Today they looked big enough to buy, so I pulled the trigger.

I was wondering if this acro's sp. can be id'ed. I know it is a frag, so it is more difficult to id, but its worth a shot.

Blue LEDs only

Second is this interesting montipora. It has a faint purple rim, pastel blue/green body, and neon green polyps. Does this one have a name?

*Note the purple is not that purple on the montipora, I can never get spot on color representative pictures of my corals under the 120w LED Evo.

Daylight

Blue LEDs only

TIA

 

[secretreefer]

IDK but that's a sick monti pickup haven't seen one like that before. i think the 1st sps is a caroliniata

 

[KLR]

Thanks and neither have I, it is kinda like undata but bright green polyps and that is what I was leaning towards,but I don't know alot about acroporas, haha.

 

[Fragtastic Reef]

That Monti is awesome. I have not seen one like that either. It almost looks fleshy like a LPS....

 

[KLR]

Thanks, its texture is quite different than the usual montipora, to bad it grows REALLY slow. But I guess that will make it more rewarding in time.

 

[secretreefer]

hmmmmm....i guess the time for trading will be right in about a month or so......:angel:

 

[KLR]

Hahah, it is the size of a quarter with a little dime size piece attached to it. My colony is a total of about 3/4 in. in diameter.

 

[secretreefer]

woah! ok make that 6 months from now! i think you have something very unique there brutha. the color off the front polyp is bleeding into the tissue!

 

[Fragtastic Reef]

It looks similar to a turbinara.

 

[KLR]

woah! ok make that 6 months from now! i think you have something very unique there brutha. the color off the front polyp is bleeding into the tissue!

Yea that sounds more like it, and I saw that aswell I am not sure why that happens but I hope it stays!

It looks similar to a turbinara.

It could be, it is kinda hard to say atm. It is really small.

 

[secretreefer]

judging by the no raised coralites and the size of the polyps (the coral is the size of a quarter) this isn't a tubinaria.

 

[swannyson7]

Not sure on the monti, but it's certainly a nice one. The acro looks like an Acropora caroliniana, but might be a lokani or granulosa

 

[KLR]

Thanks and ok, I guess I will have to wait for it to grow out before it can be accurately id'ed.