Acropora ID

[Nami]

Hi everyone,

Anyone able to help identify what frag that I have here? It has started giving new shoots after months in my tank. The color is greyish blue. Is it some kind of staghorn?

 

[Boehmtown]

Looks like an acropora yongei or green slimer variant, they come in blueish. "Blue slimer"

 

[Nami]

Do slimer polyps extend so much? This frag is hairy lol.

I also noticed it does not slime as much.

 

[thamnasteroid]

Looks like an acropora yongei or green slimer variant, they come in blueish. "Blue slimer"

not yongei, yongei essentially look like tenuis but branching

 

[Boehmtown]

not yongei, yongei essentially look like tenuis but branching

A yongei is a green slimer. And that looks like a color variant of a green slimer to me

 

[sassyonmane]

Hi everyone,

Anyone able to help identify what frag that I have here? It has started giving new shoots after months in my tank. The color is greyish blue. Is it some kind of staghorn?

Acropora abrolhosensis
also known as the "yeti"

atleast in australia thats what the fluffy stags are called, should be blue and white under blue lights

 

[Nami]

Acropora abrolhosensis
also known as the "yeti"

atleast in australia thats what the fluffy stags are called, should be blue and white under blue lights

This must be it, when I looked up images for a. Albrohosensis, definitely similar to this frag. Its pale blue under white light.

Looking forward to it growing into a larger colony.

Thanks for the ID everyone.

 

[thamnasteroid]

A yongei is a green slimer. And that looks like a color variant of a green slimer to me

I'm not sure green slimers are actually yongei. Compare with yongei in the wild:
Acropora yongei | West Java, Indonesia | Credit: Febrianne Sukiato

Notice the flared, tenuis-like radials.

 

[sassyonmane]

I'm not sure green slimers are actually yongei. Compare with yongei in the wild:
Acropora yongei | West Java, Indonesia | Credit: Febrianne Sukiato

Notice the flared, tenuis-like radials.

A yongei is a green slimer. And that looks like a color variant of a green slimer to me

If you search on google it says its an acropora yongei but i believe that the dallas slimer, similar to the aussie dallas is actually a staghorn acro

 

[thamnasteroid]

If you search on google it says its an acropora yongei but i believe that the dallas slimer, similar to the aussie dallas is actually a staghorn acro

Don't trust hobby IDs as they are often wrong.

compare with the holotype:
Acropora yongei type specimen | Great Barrier Reef, Australia | Credit: JEN Veron and Carden Wallace, Scleractinia of Eastern Australia

Note the flared radial corallites, compared to the nariform radials of the green slimer.

 

[thamnasteroid]

Acropora abrolhosensis
also known as the "yeti"

atleast in australia thats what the fluffy stags are called, should be blue and white under blue lights

wouldn't think it's abrolhosensis, compare with the holotype
Acropora abrolhosensis type specimen | Abrolhos Islands, Western Australia | Credit: JEN Veron, New Scleractinia from Australian Coral Reefs (1985)

note the widely spaced, outward-facing tubular radials. Also, most Acros have high polyp extension/ are "fluffy" under aquarium conditions.