Acropora ID needed

[chipchipbro]

Hey guys

Theres a Frag available in one of my rather local shops..

I actually dont know what it is but it looks tabling. Any one have an idea?

@sculpin01 @Graffiti Spot

 

[chipchipbro]

heres a daylight pic

 

[Graffiti Spot]

That’s a tough one but acropora anthocercis was my first guess with that odd branch end in the first picture. Then in the second pic a number of coralites make me want to say it’s divaricata like the Red Robin stag. Looking forward to hearing others thoughts on this one.

 

[chipchipbro]

That’s a tough one but acropora anthocercis was my first guess with that odd branch end in the first picture. Then in the second pic a number of coralites make me want to say it’s divaricata like the Red Robin stag. Looking forward to hearing others thoughts on this one.

now thats the question..
one is rather tabling and the other more of a stick, right?

So I dont have space for a tabler but if it would be a stag that would be pretty nice.

 

[vetteguy53081]

May be a Red Granulosa acro

 

[chipchipbro]

I checked the FF Red Robin pics and its pretty similar to this imo..
so you could be right @Graffiti Spot

 

[sculpin01]

I agree that Red Robin is a reasonable candidate. You have a coral with appressed corallites with corallite size variability and some branch fusion. To get a final answer out of this, you would need to grow it out and look at the morphology of the new branches.

 

[Graffiti Spot]

Yea I see people lay down the Red Robin branches in frag systems and they look like that when in limbo. Still a rockin acropora if you ask me and it gets some really cool table like stag growth when big and can pack pounds on once it gets past medium colony size. Let us know if you grab it and it shows some new growth!