New to montipora, need help ID’ing

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I believe you have it backwards. Plates expand out and then up, forming levels of "plates" hence the name. Encrusters cover the rock surface, forming a crust over the rock surface. Again, hence the name.
okay and the capricornis is in which category
 

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I am not an expert here by any means, so please take that into account.

The first photo from the OP is a true plating Monti. Notice how it forms levels of smooth plates?

The photo you shared looks to me to be similar to a branching form. They grow out to look similar to those beautiful acro colonies. Spires attached to a main base.

This could also be completely off base. I say this because yours looks similar to mine in color and basic shape. Yours almost looks to be reaching for light. ?
 

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I am not an expert here by any means, so please take that into account.

The first photo from the OP is a true plating Monti. Notice how it forms levels of smooth plates?

The photo you shared looks to me to be similar to a branching form. They grow out to look similar to those beautiful acro colonies. Spires attached to a main base.

This could also be completely off base. I say this because yours looks similar to mine in color and basic shape. Yours almost looks to be reaching for light. ?
It’s curious because i grows very fast and spreads out, but over time the “spires” form. Both LfS that a trade to really like it as they haven’t seen one grow quite like it.
Ive had it for years.
 

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It’s curious because i grows very fast and spreads out, but over time the “spires” form. Both LfS that a trade to really like it as they haven’t seen one grow quite like it.
Ive had it for years.

Like I said. I am not an expert here. I have only in the last year been able to keep Monti's alive at all. Notice the growth rings on the edges of the ones I posted? This has been the growth since I did my tank upgrade about 7 weeks ago. The red one has literally grown about 1/4 inch in that time.
 

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So this is what then…
A plating but not a Cap?
I am by means an expert either but I would guess it’s not a Cap. Also, the growth form of a coral can sometimes be a little weird. For instance I have a mystic sunset monti that is a encrusting monti that in my tank started encrusting and now it’s plating.
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I am by means an expert either but I would guess it’s not a Cap. Also, the growth form of a coral can sometimes be a little weird. For instance I have a mystic sunset monti that is a encrusting monti that in my tank started encrusting and now it’s plating.
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Looks like the other one I posted up thread.
 

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Yeah it’s a common, fast growing monti. Mine encrusted the rock until it grew into some other corals and then it kinda started plating.
Yeah it grows fast but has great colors and polyp extension for a monti IMHO
 

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Yeah it grows fast but has great colors and polyp extension for a monti IMHO
I do like the colors of it, and when my tank was newer I liked fast growing corals like that. Now that my tank is over crowded and many of my corals are fighting for space I don’t care for it all that much. I see the space that it takes up and all I see is a big space where I could put a nice garden of torches.
 

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I do like the colors of it, and when my tank was newer I liked fast growing corals like that. Now that my tank is over crowded and many of my corals are fighting for space I don’t care for it all that much. I see the space that it takes up and all I see is a big space where I could put a nice garden of torches.
Frag away…..!
Or sell as a show piece

I keep my under control with snips…
 

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I dont know what categori of montipora I have, (I called them monti cap) but this is picture of 3 years of growth.
Correction, I don't have it any more, I broke it all down and donated to local store, and starting with frags again
 

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I dont know what categori of montipora I have, (I called them monti cap) but this is picture of 3 years of growth.
Correction, I don't have it any more, I broke it all down and donated to local store, and starting with frags again
fro what I’ve seen here tonight those were mo to Cap
 

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