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I'm not sure what this SPS is called. I dropped it when I was cutting the plug stem off and it broke into half a dozen pieces. Since then it has started encrusting and growing pretty quickly. Pinkish skin and light blue polyps. I'm sure it's nothing exotic but I have no idea what to call it.


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Looks like Gomezi acro or blue nubby acro
 
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Not a great pic but here's one before it got broken so bad. The wider sections where it branches had me wondering if it was some type of branching montipora?
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Not a great pic but here's one before it got broken so bad. The wider sections where it branches had me wondering if it was some type of branching montipora?
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This pic shows a whole different perception
Could be tubs lavender monti or blue polyp digita
 

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Wow this is intriguing! To me it looks like a light blue anacropora. If it’s not a bleached green with blue polyp variant then you have a gem. I have not seen a blue or even light blue anacropora yet. Where did you get it? I am curious what others think.
 
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Where did you get it? I am curious what others think.
Got it off a local reefer doing a tank breakdown. I can't remember if it was always this pale but it definently has been for the last few months. I was worried it might not make it but then it started entrusting and growing pretty quickly.

I still really doubt it's anything special.
 
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What color are the polyps? Can’t tell from pic. Tubbs stellata is toxic green
Pale blue, could even be white considering how much the blue lights tint things. But I did take the pics during my daylight schedule with a yellow lens.
 

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A better pic would be fun. Kinda does look like it has raised areas where the polyps are and tiny polyps at each branch tip. Still not ruling out a possible smoothie, the more and more I look at it I change my mind. It’s encrusting very well where it’s touching the rock so that and the polyps there say acropora. Can you get a better pic of a that branch end?
 
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A better pic would be fun. Kinda does look like it has raised areas where the polyps are and tiny polyps at each branch tip. Still not ruling out a possible smoothie, the more and more I look at it I change my mind. It’s encrusting very well where it’s touching the rock so that and the polyps there say acropora. Can you get a better pic of a that branch end?
I'll try again tomorrow. My daylight phase ended and controlling this Ocean Revive light is kind of a pain.
 
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Here are a few more pics, not sure if they'll help. The piece in the back is a little more shaded and the skin has a little darker shade of pink to it.

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