Acro ID. Slimer?

[nereefpat]

Green slimer, right? Let me know if the color looks screwy. Just a slightly edited droid photo.

Seems to be doing well.

 

[Daddy-o]

Looks a little thin with too many branches occurring at the same spot to be a slimer?
Cheers! Mark

 

[Tahoe61]

I can see acropora yongei

 

[AquaRaider44]

Looks a little thin with too many branches occurring at the same spot to be a slimer?
Cheers! Mark

It could be a slimer I have one with 6 branches within 3/8 of an inch. Even more common if the tip of the branch was broken as they love to split like crazy after that.

 

[nereefpat]

thanks, guys.

 

[Dipan Desai]

Looks similar to my slimer. Mine also gets tons of new tip growth like that one.

 

[C. Eymann]

radials are more tubular than most yongei I have seen, Id guess this maybe A. micropathalma aka "ora Scripps acro"

 

[nereefpat]

Interesting. I'll do some reading. My first Acropora, so I'm curious.

I'll also post another picture when in (hopefully) grows out more. It was just the single stock when I purchased it in June. It encrusted to the rock before it grew taller and branched out.

It came from Elite Reef in Denver, if there happens to be any Colorado folks around here.

 

[Graffiti Spot]

It does look more like a thinner branching stag from the small tubular branch tips poking out. Looking forward to an update once more branches form.

 

[nereefpat]

End of March update

 

[Daddy-o]

Looking good! I like that it is still encrusting and showing good tip growth!
Cheers! Mark

 

[nereefpat]

From the front

 

[nereefpat]

May

 

[kevin_e]

Looks a little thin with too many branches occurring at the same spot to be a slimer?
Cheers! Mark

Slimers definitely do that ime

 

[Reef_in_Denver]

I went to elite reef a decent amount before covid. I would imagine it's slimer. They have a great shop but don't keep many high end acros in stock.

It would be a safe guess that it's a slimer due to their wide availability.

 

[nereefpat]

July update...mostly for tracking growth purposes.

 

[Algaewarrior]

That's growing really fast!

 

[nereefpat]

That's growing really fast!

You think so? Between post #1 and current picture is about 5 1/2 months.

Like I said, it's my first Acropora, and sort of a test piece.

 

[Algaewarrior]

I had a green slimer about 3 months before it rtn on me. Only thing it did was start to base out before it died.

 

[nereefpat]

October 1st. Roughly 8 months between post #1 and current pic.