Acro ID need help

Curiousbranching · Oct 8, 2023

I've had these acros for a while but don't know their commercial/scientific names. Can someone help me please?

hexcolor reef · Oct 8, 2023

With nice polyps they maybe millipora

DJF · Oct 8, 2023

They look like acropora tenuis to me. First one could be a tort.

hexcolor reef · Oct 8, 2023

This video shows the difference in acros

Curiousbranching · Oct 9, 2023

DJF said:
They look like acropora tenuis to me. First one could be a tort.

They come with many different color morph, but I don't know what their trade name

DJF · Oct 9, 2023

Curiousbranching said:
They come with many different color morph, but I don't know what their trade name

Understood. Often several names… and just as often “no name”. It is difficult to tell but I would say the color form of the blue with yellow polyps looks like a SC Orange Passion. The yellow with red polyps could be a Pink Floyd or a Pink Lemonade. Green ones could have any number of trade names. The first pic has the color of a CA tort but if its a tenuis then that isn’t it.

Kasrift · Oct 9, 2023

1) Not sure, tenuis maybe.
2) Candlelight Acro
3) Acropora Tenuis
4) Acropora Microclades
5) Looks like a Marvin the Martian Acro, don't know the type.

Kasrift · Oct 9, 2023

DJF said:
Understood. Often several names… and just as often “no name”. It is difficult to tell but I would say the color form of the blue with yellow polyps looks like a SC Orange Passion. The yellow with red polyps could be a Pink Floyd or a Pink Lemonade. Green ones could have any number of trade names. The first pic has the color of a CA tort but if its a tenuis then that isn’t it.

Yellow with red is exactly as you called it. Trade name changes, it is a microclades though. I kind of thought the first might be a tort, but the corralites are different shape.

Kasrift · Oct 9, 2023

Looking at the first one again, I'm thinking Miyagi Tort, so acropora tortusa.

The two things to look at when trying to ID acros is growth pattern and corallites shape/density/size.

And for the candlelight acro, I don't know what it is classified as, but I only ever see it with that name. It is always a shade of green and very fuzzy. They have a shape that is almost like a speciosa, but more polyps/corallites per branch and they have bigger polyps.

DJF · Oct 9, 2023

Agree on the first one. What made me back away from calling it a tort is that mine grows more like a staghorn but that could be explained by flow. IMHO Miyagi & CA tort are interchangeable but agree on Miyagi.

Curiousbranching · Oct 9, 2023

Kasrift said:
Looking at the first one again, I'm thinking Miyagi Tort, so acropora tortusa.

The two things to look at when trying to ID acros is growth pattern and corallites shape/density/size.

And for the candlelight acro, I don't know what it is classified as, but I only ever see it with that name. It is always a shade of green and very fuzzy. They have a shape that is almost like a speciosa, but more polyps/corallites per branch and they have bigger polyps.

DJF said:
Agree on the first one. What made me back away from calling it a tort is that mine grows more like a staghorn but that could be explained by flow. IMHO Miyagi & CA tort are interchangeable but agree on Miyagi.

Thank you for your enthusiastic guidance. It's great that the community has people like you

This is white light picture of the first one. It appears it is not Tortuosa maybe