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swannyson7
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Are you looking for a species or a trade name?
Any chance of a much closer and in focus photo?
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Without a clearer pic, it's almost impossible to get a difinitive ID on the species. I'd try looking through here to see if you can ID the particular species:
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Sorry I couldn't be more help, but there are so many similar species of acropora, that I don't want to guess and provide you with the wrong species
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FWIW, if I had to guess, the first one looks like an Acropora cervicornis (staghorn), while the second one looks like Acropora sarmentosa
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The corallites look a bit small to be a tenuis IMO, that's why I was guessing a stag (But it could definitely be Acropora tenuis as well). Although most large stags have long branches without many forks, that is pretty dependent on flow. I have a stag in high flow that is branching like crazy, while some of the ones in lower flow have long branches that don't seem to split much. Did you look into the Acro sarmentosa as a possible ID on the second one?
