Acropora ID request

Kainic · Jan 19, 2017

Hi,

Can I have an ID for these acroporas? I'm looking for the latin name.
Thank you very much.

Diesel · Jan 19, 2017

Tenuis!

Kainic · Jan 20, 2017

I'm sure it's not Acropora tenius. Corallites are way different from my acroporas.

Tahoe61 · Jan 20, 2017

A. Austera or Tortusa is as close as I can get. It has the dome corallite structure. In the image the piece looks red, or pink.

The polys look right for Tortuosa. Everyone is used to the blue and green variants. Not my image.

Where did you get the piece?

Kainic · Jan 20, 2017

This is a frag of the second coral in the original post. The mother colony is not as green as the frag, but has some green on it.
I got both acros at my LFS and they are both maricultured pieces.
I'll try to get decent pictures with a dslr to see if I can get true colors.

Tahoe61 · Jan 20, 2017

^ That does look like a Tortuosa

Diesel · Jan 20, 2017

Kainic said:
I'm sure it's not Acropora tenius. Corallites are way different from my acroporas.

Tahoe61 said:
A. Austera or Tortusa is as close as I can get. It has the dome corallite structure. In the image the piece looks red, or pink.

The polys look right for Tortuosa. Everyone is used to the blue and green variants. Not my image.

My bad I think you guys are right.
It seams after I got rid off all the SPS I got rid of the knowledge as well.
Maybe time for another change as well.

Kainic · Jan 20, 2017

Diesel said:
My bad I think you guys are right.
It seams after I got rid off all the SPS I got rid of the knowledge as well.
Maybe time for another change as well.

The solution is to stock again for SPS, knowledge will come or maybe not but your tank will be even prettier [emoji23]