gio14 Posted January 30 Share Posted January 30 Hi all, I'm wondering if anyone can identify this coral, the store said it is a montipora, I'm not that sure... Quote Link to comment
mcarroll Posted January 31 Share Posted January 31 Looks like CG. 😉 Does it ever display polyps? Any chance it's a sponge? Quote Link to comment
gio14 Posted January 31 Author Share Posted January 31 sorry this is the only picture I have, the seller is pretending to say that it is a montipora, but I cannot really see any similarity... probably this isn't a sponge it seems to have an hard skeleton also porites looks different from my point of view... Quote Link to comment
InAtTheDeepEnd Posted January 31 Share Posted January 31 seriously looks like platygyra pini to me but I didn't think they came so neon green or were really common in aquaria. Certainly never seen them on any lists over here but you guys in the US get loads more variety than us anyways! Quote Link to comment
mcarroll Posted January 31 Share Posted January 31 5 hours ago, InAtTheDeepEnd said: platygyra? The color sure is right!! I think that would have meandering channels containing indistinct coralites rather than individual distinguishable corallites tho. 10 hours ago, MrP said: Porites I think I agree with this one after a little googling....seeing some polyps would help a lot though. Some folks have a lot of luck with Porites recently, but I wouldn't consider them a sure thing like most Monti's. 1 Quote Link to comment
Pjanssen Posted February 1 Share Posted February 1 IDK, it looks pretty. I can see if it has polyps why the lfs would say its an encrusting montipora. 1 Quote Link to comment
lakshwadeep Posted February 4 Share Posted February 4 Looks more like Porites than Montipora because the corallite walls are connected to each other and very regular in shape. 1 Quote Link to comment
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