Please ID

[gnarlyfish]

I've had this coral for 2 years and I don't have a name for it. It started from a 1in frag.

 

[buddythelion]

Possibly red planet?

 

[gnarlyfish]

That's what I was thinking. Here is what it looked like when I got it.

 

[gnarlyfish]

Here's a close up. Maybe it will help.

 

[Frick]

Can't be Red Planet because that would come from ORA. Coping the name would be a false ID. There are many more red species of Acropora that all require different care and intensities of lighting, that doesn't make them all Red Planets. Try to find the species, using an established show name could be harmful if you pass it on to another reefer.

It is more likely to be a A. millepora or A. prostata.
Corals of the World Factsheet and images - Acropora millepora
Corals of the World Factsheet and images - Acropora prostrata

 

[buddythelion]

Did you get this as a wild piece, or is it a piece you got and just don't remember the name? Because if it's the later, then it might be a red planet.

 

[gnarlyfish]

I got it as a frag from my lfs but it didn't have a name attached to it. I just thought it looked cool so I got it. They might have fragged it from a wild colony but I wasn't told anything.

 

[buddythelion]

I got it as a frag from my lfs but it didn't have a name attached to it. I just thought it looked cool so I got it. They might have fragged it from a wild colony but I wasn't told anything.

More than likely it was from a wild piece then.

 

[gnarlyfish]

It's weird. Some days it looks like a mille. Then other days it looks like a prostrata or a red planet. They all look so similar. I'll just call it my red millestrata. haha

 

[Frick]

ORAs Red PLanet will also not have the single white tentical on the polyps either. Yours does.
ORA Red Planet | Acropora sp. | Oceans, Reefs & Aquariums

To be proper about it you can call it Acropora cf. millepora. The "cf." stands for confer or "resembling closest to". Or just Pink Fuzzy Acro.

 

[gnarlyfish]

Pink fuzzy acro it is, then. lol