Two acros for ID

bct15 · Jul 24, 2013

I have two acros I'd like to get an ID for. The first one I tried getting IDed previously but needed to let it grow out more, I originally thought maybe A Valida but I dont think so anymore. It looks weird because it is growing on a piece of branch rock and has completely covered it. It appears to be a staghorn of some sort. It's just now getting good color from a brown out spell it had. Below is a pic.

The other one is still fairly small but might be able to get an ID. It reminds me a lot of a pink lemonade as far as growth and has pink polyps too, but it is different. The purple, pink, and bluish acro behind the ice fire echinata frag.

And this one looks kind of off I guess from the angle

Please excuse the crappy iPhone pics my water was cloudy today for some reason too. Also ignore the dieing GSP on the rocks.

bct15 · Jul 25, 2013

Anybody?

Frick · Jul 25, 2013

The first might be Acropora abrolhosensis from what I can see. Maybe A. pulchra also.
Acropora abrolhosensis. Corals of the World - Photos, maps and information about corals and reefs
Acropora pulchra. Corals of the World - Photos, maps and information about corals and reefs

Hard to say on the second the only thing i see to go by are the new axial corallites popping up on the sides. Needs to grow out more and pictures with the the polyps retracted would help out also.