ID,any ideas?

[Liam]

Hi all,picked up another nice frag today Looks kinda like a tort,puple with blueish tips(except one which has a little algae on it ) and green polyps.Any other ideas?
-Liam.

 

[One Eye]

Polyps are to green for the tort. Looks like it's going to color up to be one of the dark purple with green polyp acropora sp...that helps alot huh.

 

[Liam]

Polyps are to green for the tort. Looks like it's going to color up to be one of the dark purple with green polyp acropora sp...that helps alot huh.

Everything is helpful Darren .I know 75% of the time it's a crab shoot id'ing frags,but sometimes you can get lucky if someone bought a similar frag looking frag that is now a colony and easier to id so i like to throw one out there now and again.(quite often really )

 

[RichConley]

No idea.

Looks like its going to be really nice though.

 

[NateHanson]

Looks great!

I don't think it's the common dark purple with green polyps acro. coralites are different shape.

The coralites actually look a lot like tortusa to me. It's that odd, very smooth, not very well-defined radial coralite like the tort. Just a goosebump with a polyp in it, sort of.

 

[One Eye]

The coralites actually look a lot like tortusa to me. It's that odd, very smooth, not very well-defined radial coralite like the tort. Just a goosebump with a polyp in it, sort of.

Yes but many many acro frags start out that way.....

 

[One Eye]

BTW, half the fun is the guessing game.

 

[Liam]

Looks great!

I don't think it's the common dark purple with green polyps acro. coralites are different shape.

The coralites actually look a lot like tortusa to me. It's that odd, very smooth, not very well-defined radial coralite like the tort. Just a goosebump with a polyp in it, sort of.

That was what drew me to the tort idea Nate,the coralites are radial and somewhat tube like.