help!id please!

[ladyreefer1983]

thank u!

 

[Otter_rs]

Looks like a Green Slimer Acropora yongei


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[ladyreefer1983]

are there different types of green slimer?

 

[Otter_rs]

Probably, as common names are more or less how it looks instead of what species it is. Corals are also one of the most difficult animals to ID as the tend to hybridize in nature. Sometimes you have to look at a dead coralite under a microscope in order to ID it correctly.


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[ladyreefer1983]

thanks....i have a friend that has a green slimer and hers is much thicker much greener...thats why i am a bit confuse...i got it as a green slimer in our recent swap.
i did just google yellow green acropora and acropora yongei came out...but green slimer came out also..thats why i came here for help...i dont know much about sps
and i have been wanting to have a green slimer...as everyone knows its the fastest growing and easiest to keep..and not expensive

 

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Picture of full tank shot .. Please

 

[Otter_rs]

thanks....i have a friend that has a green slimer and hers is much thicker much greener...thats why i am a bit confuse...i got it as a green slimer in our recent swap.
i did just google yellow green acropora and acropora yongei came out...but green slimer came out also..thats why i came here for help...i dont know much about sps
and i have been wanting to have a green slimer...as everyone knows its the fastest growing and easiest to keep..and not expensive

No problem, sps corals are amazing creatures. Under different conditions, they can look very different. The same species can often encrust, plate or form columns depending on just water current alone. As for color, that depends on the symbiotic zooxanthellae algae in the coral's tissue. The same species of coral can often be a variety of different colors. Now, shades of the same color or thickness of the same shape is usually caused by a difference in lighting or water chemistry.


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