Acro ID need help

[Curiousbranching]

I've had these acros for a while but don't know their commercial/scientific names. Can someone help me please?

 

[hexcolor reef]

With nice polyps they maybe millipora

 

[DJF]

They look like acropora tenuis to me. First one could be a tort.

 

[hexcolor reef]

This video shows the difference in acros

 

[Curiousbranching]

They look like acropora tenuis to me. First one could be a tort.

They come with many different color morph, but I don't know what their trade name

 

[DJF]

They come with many different color morph, but I don't know what their trade name

Understood. Often several names… and just as often “no name”. It is difficult to tell but I would say the color form of the blue with yellow polyps looks like a SC Orange Passion. The yellow with red polyps could be a Pink Floyd or a Pink Lemonade. Green ones could have any number of trade names. The first pic has the color of a CA tort but if its a tenuis then that isn’t it.

 

[Kasrift]

1) Not sure, tenuis maybe.
2) Candlelight Acro
3) Acropora Tenuis
4) Acropora Microclades
5) Looks like a Marvin the Martian Acro, don't know the type.

 

[Kasrift]

Understood. Often several names… and just as often “no name”. It is difficult to tell but I would say the color form of the blue with yellow polyps looks like a SC Orange Passion. The yellow with red polyps could be a Pink Floyd or a Pink Lemonade. Green ones could have any number of trade names. The first pic has the color of a CA tort but if its a tenuis then that isn’t it.

Yellow with red is exactly as you called it. Trade name changes, it is a microclades though. I kind of thought the first might be a tort, but the corralites are different shape.

 

[Kasrift]

Looking at the first one again, I'm thinking Miyagi Tort, so acropora tortusa.

The two things to look at when trying to ID acros is growth pattern and corallites shape/density/size.

And for the candlelight acro, I don't know what it is classified as, but I only ever see it with that name. It is always a shade of green and very fuzzy. They have a shape that is almost like a speciosa, but more polyps/corallites per branch and they have bigger polyps.

 

[DJF]

Agree on the first one. What made me back away from calling it a tort is that mine grows more like a staghorn but that could be explained by flow. IMHO Miyagi & CA tort are interchangeable but agree on Miyagi.

 

[Curiousbranching]

Looking at the first one again, I'm thinking Miyagi Tort, so acropora tortusa.

The two things to look at when trying to ID acros is growth pattern and corallites shape/density/size.

And for the candlelight acro, I don't know what it is classified as, but I only ever see it with that name. It is always a shade of green and very fuzzy. They have a shape that is almost like a speciosa, but more polyps/corallites per branch and they have bigger polyps.

Agree on the first one. What made me back away from calling it a tort is that mine grows more like a staghorn but that could be explained by flow. IMHO Miyagi & CA tort are interchangeable but agree on Miyagi.

Thank you for your enthusiastic guidance. It's great that the community has people like you

This is white light picture of the first one. It appears it is not Tortuosa maybe

 

[DJF]

I’m back to a tort really beautiful colony!

 

[Curiousbranching]

I’m back to a tort really beautiful colony!

My guess is that these are more tortuosa-like, rounder coralite than the first one

 

[DJF]

I meant to say back to not thinking it’s a tort. Agree on the pics looking like torts