Please help ID 2 sps/ montipora
 

Hi everyone,

I've been reefing for nearly 5 years and have only started trying to keep sps this year. So I'm not well versed in the scientific or popular names of different sps species/ types.

Any how, I think I scored 2 nice pieces today. All I know is that they're both encrusting types of montiporas and that's about it. Please help me in finding their scientific and popular names so I can get more information on them.

Below are some pictures I took right after taking them out of their bags. Sorry for the poor image quality; my camera is a really old point and shoot (Canon A620) and the batteries were nearly empty of charge. Thanks in advanced.


Under 2300K regular desk lamp bulb with camera flash.
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Under 2300K regular desk lamp bulb with no flash.
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Close up: 2300K desk lamp and camera flash
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Close up: Under PAR 38 led running at 50% at 2.5 feet height from container. LED configuration: 4 white 6 blue 2 red.
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Camera batteries just about died after this next shot.

In my 40 G breeder. Directly under 2 x 6300K and 1 x 7000K T5HO bulbs. Further away are 1 x fiji pink KZ bulb and 2 actinic bulbs.
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Looks to me like M.danae & M.nodosa but hard to say for sure.

It looks like the tonga stuff. The first is M. verrucosa and snappy is right on the M. nodosa.

I am sticking with M.danae but that is only my opinion. :biggrin: That said both verrucosa & danae have a lot of similarities but either way it's a nice piece with loads of potential.

Thanks for the guesses guys! Yeah I agree Snappy hit the second/ orange one right on the head. As soon as I googled the latin name, similar looking images came up. Still not certain what the true name of the first one is though.

A little more info on it. At the store they were under Halide + T5HO Actinic combo and the base of the first coral looked more yellowish while the polyps were an intense bright blue. The orange one looked more like a vivid metallic orange. Well that's what I remember anyways.

Yeah my lights are configured to grow macro algae and sea grass (my primary interest). I need to raise funds to start my DT reef tank soon.