Fuzzy stag ID

[SamMule]

Can someone help me ID this staghorn?
I thought I had it identified once before, but can't find the post...
It's really hardy and a fast grower. Not exceptionally flashy, but certainly unique!

Here's a pic with polyps retracted. There is a well defined axial corallite, but the polyp doesn't seem to be any larger than the radial ones. Radial corallites are less defined and seem to be pretty irregularly sized.

 

[Utubereefer]

I’m gonna need a frag for closer inspection… for naming purposes of course

 

[SamMule]

More interested in species than trade name, but I'll take either.

 

[djf91]

Maybe A. yongei

 

[SamMule]

Isn't green slimer yongei?
This is definitely different. The polyps are at least 5mm long!

Maybe @C. Eymann could weigh in on this one?

 

[G Santana]

This is what I'm thinking, but I have no scientific basis for my answer.
But that is SWEET!!!

 

[SamMule]

 

[Greg P]

Looks like a Mille (acropora millepora) to me

 

[SamMule]

Not a Millie. It's a stag of some sort.

 

[djf91]

Isn't green slimer yongei?
This is definitely different. The polyps are at least 5mm long!

Maybe @C. Eymann could weigh in on this one?

I would say our captive environments extrude all sorts of different growth forms from Acropora species that you might not see in their natural environment.

 

[lemonade]

The photo with polyps retracted reminds me of A. Teres.

However, like mentioned above Acropora can take on some unusual appearances in our aquariums compared to their wild counterparts.

 

[Greg P]

Not a Millie. It's a stag of some sort

This thread made me research my Pink Mille and now see the difference where mine has the one long polyp in the middle.
Good luck in your search
Bump!

 

[SamMule]

Thanks. Yeah, I'm sure it's not a Millie. Wish I could find that old thread, but the one I thought it resembled was one of the first successfully kept acroporas.

 

[SamMule]

Still looking for an ID on this.
Had some exceptional PE the other day with lights going down.
Some of the polyps on the tips were a solid 1/2" long!

 

[SamMule]

@C. Eymann
Do you have any ideas? Still would love to get an idea of the species. Really haven't seen anything else like it.

 

[C. Eymann]

Reminds me of a thinner branched abrolhosensis or possibly horrida. there is one that UC used to have called "the yeti" that looked pretty similar to yours.

 

[SamMule]

I think you're right on that! Abrolhosensis looks just like it. Thanks!

 

[C. Eymann]

I think you're right on that! Abrolhosensis looks just like it. Thanks!

I'd agree, my first guess is abrolhosensis, esp after seeing a pic of a thinner branched, less dense/ growing in a lower energy environment specimen on a disease study paper at research gate, radial corallite structure and arrangement seem to be a match.

 

[ID-Reefer]

I’m trying to identify this acro I have that looks similar to yours I think. Very fuzzy. Polyps always out. Fast growing. Started with a single 2” frag 8 months ago Does this look like yours?