help id this monti and acro

[doughboy]

encrusting monti with green base and orange polyps

and this acro

thanks!

 

[BoomCorals]

First one is a cyphastrea not a monti.

Second might be a tort but hard to tell.

 

[doughboy]

I can see how the scale of the picture can make it look like a cyphastrea. the two frags are on a 1 1/4" frag plug.

 

[DSC reef]

Can you get the polyps to retract so the base of the coral is shown for the first pic?

 

[Finhead]

If the first one is not a cyphastrea it'll be a reverse sunset monti.

 

[29bonsaireef]

+1 on reverse sunset monti, and probably a little too early to pin point a species on the acro.

 

[doughboy]

thanks for the id. that sounds right for it to be reverse sunset. I previously googled sunset and superman and the pictures did not look like what I got. but reverse sunset search image results looks exactly like it. this survived a tank crash a while back. all sps got wiped out and this just started growing on a rock months later. I scraped what I can off the rock and mounted on frag plug. I would have just called it phoenix if it cannot be ID'ed.

 

[BoomCorals]

If the first one is not a cyphastrea it'll be a reverse sunset monti.

Agreed

 

[justinm]

2nd one def looks like a Cali Tort