What are we looking at here
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Looks like Acropora Austera to me... what people call a tort. I reserve the right to change my mind if a closeup gets posted.
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paraletho
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well it's not oregon tort because if it was a 2" frag a year ago now it would be a 3" frag. lol
The cream/flesh colored middle reminds me of a Becker Tort. The plating growth pattern would be aberrant for this coral, but not unheard of. I feel confident that it is A. Tortuosa or A. Austera - people call either "torts" in the common tongue.
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No definitely not a Cali Tort. I have one of those and the growth pattern on my Cali is more up than out even in high light. I do have a green tort that has a similar growth pattern but still haven’t figured it out yet.
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Not every coral has a fancy name. If you received it as an unknown acro, then that’s what it is. It wouldn’t be right to call it something else because there’s a 99% chance it isn’t actually that corals lineage and just looks like it.
A name is supposed to mean this is the exact same coral, a frag taken from the named colony. Not just that it looks kind of like it.
A name is supposed to mean this is the exact same coral, a frag taken from the named colony. Not just that it looks kind of like it.
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paraletho
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I ‘m sure it had a fancy name at one time. The guy I got it from collects only named stuff. He just can’t always remember what was what. But yea I was just getting a consensus that it was a tort.
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