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[LadyTang2]

What is this and does it always grow upwards forming a cup like structure or is it a plating type that usually goes strait outwards and if thats the case how do you get it to grow up like this?


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[BeltedCoyote]

Bump @ReefSquad

 

[PicassoClown04]

The first one looks like a plating monti to me. Usually they grow more like flat disks that look a lot like dinner plates but flow affects how they grow as well as where the light is. Mine like to grow towards the flow.

The second looks like green birdsnest to me. Possibly some kind of green pocillipora or stylophora. Branching growth (obviously) and a pretty easy sps, good for reefers looking to dip their toes into sps. Both very healthy looking colonies!

 

[nereefpat]

Top looks like a monti cap to me. There are greenish/blueish varieties with purple rims like that one. Turbinaria will also 'cup' or 'scroll' like that, and so will certain chalices.

For the bottom, I would lean toward poci or stylo, but the pic is a little small and blurry.

 

[C. Eymann]

Top one is probably montipora foliosa.

Seems these days any montipora that plates out thin is called a "cap" -> capricornis, but there are many species of montipora that can share that growth form, m. grisea, m. crassituberculata, m. hodgsoni, m. florida, m. foliosa, m. aequituberculata, m. delicatula, m. frabilis etc etc

Even ORA' supernatural "cap" is actually montipora hispidia



second looks to be stylophora pistallata.

 

[SeaDweller]

Even ORA' supernatural "cap" is actually montipora hispidia

Duh EVERYbody knows this!!!!!







J/k

 

[ScottB]

Top one is probably montipora foliosa.

Seems these days any montipora that plates out thin is called a "cap" -> capricornis, but there are many species of montipora that can share that growth form, m. grisea, m. crassituberculata, m. hodgsoni, m. florida, m. foliosa, m. aequituberculata, m. delicatula, m. frabilis etc etc

Even ORA' supernatural "cap" is actually montipora hispidia



second looks to be stylophora pistallata.

I've long admired your ability to identify coral. Very impressive. Did you study Latin & Greek?

 

[SeaDweller]

I've long admired your ability to identify coral. Very impressive. Did you study Latin & Greek?

He’s well versed in Googleous.

 

[C. Eymann]

He’s well versed in Googleous.

Actually, I prefer webcrawler.

 

[Cannons Fish]

The top one definitely looks like some type of montipora