Special SPS import identification

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Hello all,

I am from South Africa and we generally don’t get the high end SPS in our country unless you special order from Aus, US, Bali, etc.
Over the last year I ordered various special pieces but sometimes they arrive without a trade name and or species...

Would appreciate if someone can help with an ID of the follow 3 pieces please:

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Looks like an anacropora, a tenuis and maybe a granulosa ( hard to tell it’s blurry). so you have pics of the corals in your tank without the color changing camera filters the vendors use? If the anacropora is yellow gold in normal light that’s something special.
 
Hello all - Thank you for the kind comments... taken a while to get my hands on these.
I have a 2000l or 400gal tank and about 1m deep....so difficult to get shots....given they still frags...
The first one: is bright yellow - not green
The second pic, both frags were very bleached when they arrived here but managed, even tho not the best picture, to take a pic of the second one - you can see it has now fully encrusted and the colour, whilst still dull, is coming through ...

apologies, the other one is quite deep and not getting a decent picture ... hope this helps....

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Looks like an anacropora, a tenuis and maybe a granulosa ( hard to tell it’s blurry). so you have pics of the corals in your tank without the color changing camera filters the vendors use? If the anacropora is yellow gold in normal light that’s something special.
This is very helpful - thank you sir.
 
I currently have over 130 SPS pieces and have most names.... when is comes to the more recent frags added, that’s where I struggle ....So - taking liberty here but whilst I have the clever minds - maybe you can assist with these that came in from a wild Bali order...no names received ....

Many thanks in advance!

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The second and fourth are very similar to Acropora Millepora.
In the third photo looks like Acropora Microclados (Strawberry shortcake).
 
1st looks like a nastua maybe, 2nd tenuis, 3rd microclados, 4th tenuis, looks similar to a colored down walt disney
 

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