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josie
10-06-2010, 03:24 PM
what's the name of this SPS:

http://i20.photobucket.com/albums/b221/josee1013/150g/vert.jpg

and is there other colors available???

Hangfire
10-06-2010, 04:03 PM
I don't know what kind of coral that is, but what is the fish that's in the picture? It sure is a beauty.

josie
10-06-2010, 04:11 PM
I don't know what kind of coral that is, but what is the fish that's in the picture? It sure is a beauty.

it's a green clown gobie ;)

Hangfire
10-06-2010, 04:14 PM
He's pretty pink to be a green anything. Thanks for the id, it's a great looking fish.

doch
10-06-2010, 05:52 PM
Looks like montipora digitata.... lots of colours available.

josie
10-06-2010, 07:11 PM
Looks like montipora digitata.... lots of colours available.

it's not a digi... his growth pattern and polyps are diffrent from digis...

lastlight
10-06-2010, 07:22 PM
Sorta looks like the orange/green formosa I picked up from John (Lobsterboy). Is there any orange in the body?

ScubaSteve
10-06-2010, 07:30 PM
Well, based on the axial corallites it's an acropora and I could probably go as for to say that it is likely a Green Staghorn Acropora. Now Staghorn is a pretty all-encompassing name; without seeing the skeleton behind the polyps there I can't really tell you which one it is exactly. I'd guess that it is A. cervicornis or A. formosa.

These don't always have the most shocking colours but you can find them in most any shade with green, blue, purple and brown being the most common.

Someone, please correct me if I'm wrong. I'm still workin' on my SPS ID-fu.

josie
10-06-2010, 07:40 PM
ok, thanks
so I'll get it mad and take a pic of it when polyps are close ;)

Chowder
10-06-2010, 07:58 PM
I have one that is quit the same. I asked for an ID on RC. Was told it is a A.Papillare.

Chris

Rbacchiega
10-06-2010, 07:59 PM
+1 to Kevin and Brett's id of A. formosa

chris88
10-06-2010, 09:43 PM
a. formosa aka bali green slimmer. Its fast growing and easy to keep.

josie
10-06-2010, 09:59 PM
here's a pic polyps closed:

http://i20.photobucket.com/albums/b221/josee1013/150g/stagID.jpg

so does formosa comes in other colors???

ScubaSteve
10-06-2010, 10:17 PM
Ya, I'm still pretty sure that's a A. formosa though the corallites are a little smaller than I'd expect. This might be because the picture is seeing more of the corallites that are underneath and on the sides of the branches. If the corallites facing the light are larger, then I'd say definitely A. formosa.

It also looks similar to A. youngei, A. Abrolhosensis and A. nobilis but I don't really think it's any of those.

Like I said, green, blue, purple and brown are the common colours for this stag. However, it is possible to find all sorts of wacky colourations depending on the environments they've been in. I've seen a purple one have one side go green from being contact with a green plating monti (this is called grafting)... so really, you just gotta look around if the other colours aren't your favs.

josie
10-07-2010, 01:13 AM
thank you scubaSteve!
:)

I would really want a purple one some day :)

Zoaelite
10-07-2010, 04:20 AM
Well, based on the axial corallites it's an acropora and I could probably go as for to say that it is likely a Green Staghorn Acropora. Now Staghorn is a pretty all-encompassing name; without seeing the skeleton behind the polyps there I can't really tell you which one it is exactly. I'd guess that it is A. cervicornis or A. formosa.

These don't always have the most shocking colours but you can find them in most any shade with green, blue, purple and brown being the most common.

Someone, please correct me if I'm wrong. I'm still workin' on my SPS ID-fu.

+1, Same thing as I have here (The original LobsterBoy colony).
John I should start marketing the frags as LB's Gargantuan Green Formosa:lol:.

http://img192.imageshack.us/img192/6489/p1130876.jpg (http://img192.imageshack.us/my.php?image=p1130876.jpg)

lobsterboy
10-07-2010, 06:53 AM
+1, Same thing as I have here (The original LobsterBoy colony).
John I should start marketing the frags as LB's Gargantuan Green Formosa:lol:.

http://img192.imageshack.us/img192/6489/p1130876.jpg (http://img192.imageshack.us/my.php?image=p1130876.jpg)

Lol, sure Levi.

Formosa all the way on that ID.

lastlight
10-07-2010, 08:08 AM
So that was like...my first positive sps id. Is there an awards wagon that rolls through or something? I've been waiting for something but it's 2am now.

lobsterboy
10-07-2010, 08:56 AM
So that was like...my first positive sps id. Is there an awards wagon that rolls through or something? I've been waiting for something but it's 2am now.

clap..............clap.............clap........... .clap........clap......clap.........clap

how about a slow clap Brett, :cheer2: , go Brett, Go Brett.

Rbacchiega
10-07-2010, 02:55 PM
:laluot_26:

uh, good job Brett.

josie
10-07-2010, 06:15 PM
I posted the question at the same time on RC... people there dont think it's a formosa...

LOL

:hurt:

josie
10-14-2010, 01:45 PM
thinking it's a A. Aspera...
what do you think?