Montis

[TarHeelReefer22]

This someone told me on another thread that it was a ORA Jermey's Monti but was sold to me as a rare color morph of setosa...

and i was also interested in this...

 

[josh4107]

Def not a setosa. Second one looks like a digitata to me

 

[josh4107]

First one looks like a spongodes

 

[evolved]

Def not a setosa. Second one looks like a digitata to me

Agree

First one looks like a spongodes

Could be, or something similar. I hate monti ID's; always difficult unless it's a large colony.

 

[TarHeelReefer22]

bump

 

[Frick]

Can you provide pictures with the polyps retracted?

 

[TarHeelReefer22]

Like **** them off and then take a picture?

 

[Frick]

Like **** them off and then take a picture?

Uhh, I can only imagine what **** means but do what you have to to make the polyps hide in the corallites temporarily while you take a picture. Maybe a nighttime shot?

 

[airfire99]

The first pic looks like green monti encrusting. This is my green monti cap, it fingers out in spots. The small frag is from the same colony.

 

[Frick]

It's pretty smooth. I will go with M. spongodes as well.
Montipora spongodes. Corals of the World - Photos, maps and information about corals and reefs

 

[TJ's Reef]

As said, Montis can be very difficult to ID correctly until large/mature. My best guess would be M. confusa for both airfire's and TarHeelReefer's unless it has red/brown polyps over flo. green base as in M. spongodes.

Cheers, Todd

 

[jgraz]

I agree with TJ. I can say the first is def not jeremys monti.

 

[TarHeelReefer22]

thanks guys