ID please

BMan · Mar 6, 2017

Well. Chalk it up as a learning experience. I'll buy another and deal with it if it should ever reproduce. Sorry for the misunderstanding.

BMan · Mar 6, 2017

Seriatopora hystrix is what the seller is telling me the coral is.

prsnlty · Mar 6, 2017

BMan said:
Well. Chalk it up as a learning experience. I'll buy another and deal with it if it should ever reproduce. Sorry for the misunderstanding.

No problem... hey, we all learn something new in this hobby every day

That's what makes a forum such as R2R great [emoji12]

If you see it beginning to grow elsewhere you can always scrape it off.

BMan · Mar 6, 2017

That green piece I posted is a birdsnest seriatopra.

prsnlty · Mar 6, 2017

So he is saying it's a birdsnest which is a in the pocillopordae family... that is this guy...

I would say that's not correct.

BMan · Mar 6, 2017

The brown one is the Seriatopora hystrix

prsnlty · Mar 6, 2017

The closest resemblance would be the seriatopora guttatus. But I still say it isn't that either due to the size of the branching.

BMan · Mar 6, 2017

prsnlty said:
The closest resemblance would be the seriatopora guttatus. But I still say it isn't that either due to the size of the branching.

I agree it most like that. This was just a frag. Maybe 2.5 inches.

prsnlty · Mar 6, 2017

I belive it is pocillopora verrucosa. They have a more lobbed or nobby branching build.

prsnlty · Mar 6, 2017

Although this one is pink and mature I belive it is what yours will grow into.

prsnlty · Mar 6, 2017

Mine is a damicornis, which yours could still be. It looked exactly like yours when it was smaller and before I began feeding it the good stuff lol. Either way it can still reproduce on its own.

ReeferBean · Mar 6, 2017

BMan said:
I returned it to the individual who sold it to me. I stated that I had learned that it can reproduce by polyp bailout. He asked where I heard that and said it was not true. Not with the coral I was returning anyway. This individual has at least 1000 gallons of frag tanks running. I ask this....who is correct ? I think I believe him over the advice I got from this post. I will buy another frag and take him at his word.

No its definitely true... I would also not introduce any poccis to my tank for the same reason. **Looks like I'm late to the party. Carry on carry on.

prsnlty · Mar 6, 2017

The guy that you got it from may have gotten it from someone who labeled incorrectly. As you can see there are very many varieties of pocillopordae and you could also see by the 1st image that the one he said it was cannot possibly be by its growth pattern.