What is this ORA acro?

Cannoy · Oct 20, 2019

I purchased this coral several years ago and the original frag died except for a little piece encrusted to the rock. I got this at my lfs and it came from ORA and was on a ORA plug but the guy there couldn't remember the name of it. I know this isn't lot of growth and im not sure if the color is what its supposed to be so an ID might be hard.

Its the blue/green coral under the yellow piece.

C. Eymann · Oct 20, 2019

ORA chips acro?

Battlecorals · Oct 20, 2019

The old Marshal island bottlebrush would be my guess

Cannoy · Oct 20, 2019

Not sure if this helps but here is a pic of the original frag from 3 years ago.

Cannoy · Oct 20, 2019

Battlecorals said:
The old Marshal island bottlebrush would be my guess

I think it looks closer to the chips than it does the bottle brush, but i dont think it has the pe like chips does.

Graffiti Spot · Oct 20, 2019

I don’t think it’s a chips. But I can’t see what it is similar too. Are you sure it’s the same coral? The first one looks like the frog skin or green austera but the new shot has some blue in either the tips or polyps. This makes me think of the one they had with a green base that had nice bright blue polyps but I forget the name. The first pic looks like that coral but the seconds growth looks different. It is kinda small to tell yet anyways.

Cannoy · Oct 20, 2019

Pedoconfuego said:
I don’t think it’s a chips. But I can’t see what it is similar too. Are you sure it’s the same coral? The first one looks like the frog skin or green austera but the new shot has some blue in either the tips or polyps. This makes me think of the one they had with a green base that had nice bright blue polyps but I forget the name. The first pic looks like that coral but the seconds growth looks different. It is kinda small to tell yet anyways.

Its definitely the same coral, its the first sps I bought. In the beginning I thought it was a frogskin but now its turning blue so im not sure what it is.

Cannoy · Oct 20, 2019

I cant get a good pic with my phone but here is another from the front.

Graffiti Spot · Oct 20, 2019

Looks more like the Ora German blue polyp to me.

TDEcoral · Oct 20, 2019

ORA has a lot of what they offer listed on their website. Have tried looking on there? My guess would be tricolor valida, but it's really hard to say.

Cannoy · Oct 20, 2019

TDEcoral said:
ORA has a lot of what they offer listed on their website. Have tried looking on there? My guess would be tricolor valida, but it's really hard to say.

I've been comparing this coral to what they have on their site for years and I cant figure it out lol.

Graffiti Spot · Oct 20, 2019

Or the yellow tip austera that has purple polyps that they sell. Not sure what they call it.

Coral Euphoria · Oct 20, 2019

Yeah almost impossible to tell when it's small. But interesting the wide range of guesses out there. I want to play..

I'm guessing frogskin.

Cannoy · Oct 21, 2019

So Im guessing i didn’t get lucky and find a pearlberry? lol

SeaDweller · Oct 21, 2019

Cannoy said:
So Im guessing i didn’t get lucky and find a pearlberry? lol

probably not

C. Eymann · Oct 21, 2019

Cannoy said:
Not sure if this helps but here is a pic of the original frag from 3 years ago.

^^ that makes me me wanna say their Verde acro maybe?

Cannoy · Oct 21, 2019

C. Eymann said:
^^ that makes me me wanna say their Verde acro maybe?

It does look like it could be the verde. On the ORA site the verde looks nothing like it but other people’s pictures look closer to what i have.

jda · Oct 21, 2019

Not a pearlberry. If it ends up being a German Blue Polyp, that is even a greater find... but it is not likely that one either... only a very few still have it and it is awesome.

Look at their granulosa offerings and see if any of those look similar.