Sps shutdown!!!

Coral Pimp · Feb 22, 2011

Need a name for this amazing piece! Im wondering if its an acropora or something else? Its blue with white polyps!

nayrgaijin · Feb 22, 2011

What's the reasoning behind your thread title? Looks like an acropora to me.

FaviaFreak · Feb 22, 2011

Acropora Horrida

Coral Pimp · Feb 22, 2011

thanks Kevin!

Coral Pimp · Feb 22, 2011

by the way? High light and high flow? or low light and low flow? what would you say?

swannyson7 · Feb 22, 2011

Acros in general prefer high light, high flow. However, don't point a powerhead straight at it. You should try to get a good amount of random flow

returnofsid · Feb 28, 2011

It'll be very hard to ID this small frag, beyond "Acropora." Also, it'll be more likely to get a positive (or at least close) Id, if you can also get a photo of it, with it's polyps retracted. Give it time to grow, show it's growth pattern, corallite structure, etc., and you'll probably have better luck, getting a more accurate ID.

Reefer831 · Feb 28, 2011

returnofsid said:
It'll be very hard to ID this small frag, beyond "Acropora." Also, it'll be more likely to get a positive (or at least close) Id, if you can also get a photo of it, with it's polyps retracted. Give it time to grow, show it's growth pattern, corallite structure, etc., and you'll probably have better luck, getting a more accurate ID.

What are you talking about man......there is no doubt that it is a Horrida.....why wouild you need the polyps retracted?

swannyson7 · Feb 28, 2011

If it's blue with white polyps, my guess would be the horrida from Wet thumb. I think Reef Farmers sells it now.

returnofsid · Feb 28, 2011

Reefer831 said:
What are you talking about man......there is no doubt that it is a Horrida.....why wouild you need the polyps retracted?

Extended polyps, often hide the structure of the corallite. Differences in corallite structure, is one of the primary ways of more successfully identifying corals. I'm glad you're certain of it's ID, since it's so easily confused with A. vaughani, which is so similar that you couldn't tell them apart, with polyps extended.

Troylee · Feb 28, 2011

returnofsid said:
Extended polyps, often hide the structure of the corallite. Differences in corallite structure, is one of the primary ways of more successfully identifying corals. I'm glad you're certain of it's ID, since it's so easily confused with A. vaughani, which is so similar that you couldn't tell them apart, with polyps extended.

i agree with this comment...but that piece is without a doubt in my mind the aussie acropora horrida i just picked up a colony not to long ago from reefpets.... it's identical...

cee · Feb 28, 2011

There have been several from Australia that have come in over the last few years. There are a couple of other species it could be other than horrida but it is likely horrida. Keep it high and it likes pretty good intermittent flow.