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I purchased this SPS long ago. It was completely brown and one point just about dead. It is now grown a bit and is colored up. The base is blue and the polyps while green you can see orange/red coloration coming through as it's not done coloring. I want to properly ID.
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Thanks all, I have taken a few more pics with polyps retracted. They didn't want to stay retracted long lol. Gonipora is going to have to be moved. Irritating the front bottom of the sps. Gonipora has gotten to big.
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Could be A. tenuis? could be vermiculata? or even euryostoma! the reality is small frags are very difficult as there is less features to reference.

I think it might be vermiculata over tenuis, because of the green ring on the mouth of the axials I commonly see with vermiculata.
Also I see one of the radulars are "pinched"
 
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Could be A. tenuis? could be vermiculata? or even euryostoma! the reality is small frags are very difficult as there is less features to reference.

I think it might be vermiculata over tenuis, because of the green ring on the mouth of the axials I commonly see with vermiculata.
Also I see one of the radulars are "pinched"
Radulars is a new term to me lol. Tried to do a quick search but what is a radular. I saw the term but didn't help researching lol. Thanks
 

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OP is this just the angle making this look "pinched/more pointed" or is the rim of that radial fairly circular/dish shaped? if its pinched I think there is a possibility it could be vermiculata, bit if its dish shaped tenuis,

So hard to tell on lil nubbins

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OP is this just the angle making this look "pinched/more pointed" or is the rim of that radial fairly circular/dish shaped? if its pinched I think there is a possibility it could be vermiculata, bit if its dish shaped tenuis,

So hard to tell on lil nubbins

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Yes, it is flared like that
 

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Radulars is a new term to me lol. Tried to do a quick search but what is a radular. I saw the term but didn't help researching lol. Thanks
mispelling, I'm on my telly sorry, radial like I circled in the pic above.

Vermiculata and tenuis are very hard to tell apart sometimes even as colonies they can be hard.
Example picture vermiculata

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mispelling, I'm on my telly sorry, radial like I circled in the pic above.

Vermiculata and tenuis are very hard to tell apart sometimes even as colonies they can be hard.
Example picture vermiculata

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So far I know this thing has some crazy polyp extensions. The pics here are close to its full extension but not quite. Wish I had a pic before it recovered and regrow or when I originally picked up
 
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So I talked to the shop I go to. He had both Walt Disney and orange passions at the time I picked up. Some had browned out with a few other sps. But still wasn't 100 percent it is one of those as well. Hopefully I can get more insight. Great info so far.

Current tank setup in this build thread.
 
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