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bird
Any idea? Person I got it from no idea what

6-line
Acropora sp. cool.gif maybe with some more growth someone may get it down to species level...maybe a bottlebrush type or tri-color...
organism
That's an aquacultured species that frequently comes in with colonies on mounted plugs, looks a lot like the "incredible hulk" acro, my guess is a horrida.
lakshwadeep
How is your water parameters? The frag appears to show RTN symptoms.
bird
QUOTE (lakshwadeep @ Nov 9 2009, 09:38 PM) *
How is your water parameters? The frag appears to show RTN symptoms.

good as far as my other sps and corals are concerned. I got it yesterday. I took the pic about 1/2 hour after I got it glued in. Here it is today.
nanoreefnate
still looks like its RTNing.
was it like that when you got it?
RyanR1212
looks pretty cool. is that orange i see the the polyps maybe or green?
organism
It looks like your alkalinity is low the way that it's peeling at the base, I'd get on that asap before you lose the thing...
bird
It is not peeling. I got it yesterday.
bird
Here is a better pic with polyps closed
doctaq
haha, that looks like a completeley different coral of the same type, is there any chance that it cam from the bottom of a big colony
organism
Oh, that one's usually referred to as a candlelight acro, turns very nice under higher lighting!
doctaq
eh,i have a candlelight and it doesnt look like that at all, it looks a lot more like my bottlebrush

candlelight polyps are much pointier on the ends while bottlebrushes have the more rounded polyp tips
organism
I had a candlelight and they looked identical...
bird
QUOTE (doctaq @ Nov 11 2009, 01:15 AM) *
haha, that looks like a completeley different coral of the same type, is there any chance that it cam from the bottom of a big colony

don't really know what part it came from. never saw the mother colony.
Here is a pic with flash and some polyps extended if it helps any. I looked at both bottlebrush and candlelight pictures and can't really tell apart though the images I looked at could themselves be misnamed.

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