Frag Swap Finds Need ID Help Plz

[SliceGolfer]

Our local club held the fall swap this weekend. I picked up a couple pieces that the sellers couldn’t remember the name, was a grab bag, or maybe mis-identified. Can you help with ID?

$10 Grab Bag Acro

Palmer’s Blue Millepora

$10 Pink Millepora

Unknown Acro

 

[C. Eymann]

$10. Grab bag might be a A. cerealis?

Unknown might be A. subulata ?

 

[SliceGolfer]

I think you are spot on with both of these IDs. The unknown Subulata looks a lot like @metrokat dubbed ”Katropora”

Build Thread - MetroKat's Reefer: Need About Tree Fiddy

Yeah, my ATO got modified to be a refugium, too! Great minds think alike.

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[SliceGolfer]

What about the Palmers Blue Mille? It looks different from other Milles I have seen.The polyps don’t look the same.

 

[C. Eymann]

I think you are spot on with both of these IDs. The unknown Subulata looks a lot like @metrokat dubbed ”Katropora”

Build Thread - MetroKat's Reefer: Need About Tree Fiddy

Yeah, my ATO got modified to be a refugium, too! Great minds think alike.

www.reef2reef.com

Looks pretty close, Katropora is a subulata too I believe.



I have always though palmers millie was actually Acropora prostrata,but I believe A. prostrata and A. milliepora are now synonymous as far a taxonomy is concerned.
Another one it's close to is A. pulchra.
I cant say definitively what it is with confidence though.

 

[SliceGolfer]

Thought I would bump this one and see if a more definitive ID can be made.

October, 2019

March, 2020

 

[TX_Punisher]

Nice pickups. Appears you found the fairway on those

 

[C. Eymann]

I believe my original ID of this being subulata might have been incorrect, now that its grown out a bit, you can see radial corallites forming right on the lip/ top side of the axial corallites which is a signature trait of sarmentosa, same with the axial structure becoming more rounded and slightly bulged, another sarmentosa trait.