Sps species ID?

VanDalsenReef · Mar 13, 2022

I'm think spathulata, but really I don't know.
The other looks very mili esque

Mellotang · Mar 13, 2022

Bottom pic looks very Spath like, even the color

first one not sure it’s a Mille

beautiful pieces though
Hope they keep their color and grow

Graffiti Spot · Mar 13, 2022

The first one is really nice! I used to have a favorite piece from figi with the same growth and coralites. It branches stag like sideways and got red polyps when really happy. Closest thing I could figure mine was would have been acuminata but yours is still small and the coralites at the tips don’t really say Mille to me either. Post again after a while, it could change once it’s growing well with new growth tips all over. Where did you get this piece from I am intrigued.

VanDalsenReef · Mar 13, 2022

Graffiti Spot said:
The first one is really nice! I used to have a favorite piece from figi with the same growth and coralites. It branches stag like sideways and got red polyps when really happy. Closest thing I could figure mine was would have been acuminata but yours is still small and the coralites at the tips don’t really say Mille to me either. Post again after a while, it could change once it’s growing well with new growth tips all over. Where did you get this piece from I am intrigued.

I got them from a local shop in Michigan. Maricultured from bali

Graffiti Spot · Mar 14, 2022

It could just be a Mille that’s been stressed at some point but I would love to see what some of the other ID guys would say. There are not many species being mariculture and sent over from Bali unless something’s changed in the past two years?

sculpin01 · Mar 15, 2022

Top looks like Acropora hoeksmai to me. Bottom is Acropora spathulata. Both are gorgeous.

Mellotang · Mar 15, 2022

I’ve Never been able to Keep A Hoeksmai long term with much success

Mellotang · Mar 15, 2022

Lol

Now you better keep updating this thread to Let us know how it goes!!

VanDalsenReef · Mar 15, 2022

Mellotang said:
Lol

Now you better keep updating this thread to Let us know how it goes!!

I will do my best. I'll try a week to week picture log

Graffiti Spot · Mar 17, 2022

hoek makes sense, I also have never had good luck with them. The Figi piece I had referred to in my first post was not a hoek though. Good luck with those two, if they thrive your certainly doing something right

VanDalsenReef · Mar 17, 2022

Here is some update
Lights rum 100 percent from noon to 6 pm.
Po4 - 14ppb (Hanna ulr)
No3 - 0.0ppm (Hanna) dosing nitrates guess not enough lol
Alk- 6.8dkh (low, raising it back to 7.8 to 8 over the next few weeks) (hanna)
Cal- 450 (salifert)
Mag- 1385 (salifert)

Pictures taken with Samsung 22 or something new fancy thing and the orphek 20k lens