Featured Lets see the eye candy from the 6/22 swap

[Alexander1312]

Those torches are going to blast everything around them (ask me how I know lol)

How do you know?

 

[Darkxerox]

How do you know?

 

[derek_SR]

Duuuuude! I wanted to pick up both of those. LOL I ended up missing one round cause I was busy chatting it up with folks. Those are beautiful pieces.

I’ve got acres of Manila spy if you ever want a big piece!

 

[Alexander1312]

I’ve got acres of Manila spy if you ever want a big piece!

Oh, I thought you had more?

 

[under_water_ninja]

I’ve got acres of Manila spy if you ever want a big piece!

I’ve got acres of Manila spy if you ever want a big piece!

I would love a big piece for the new display! Did you originally get it from me? The ones I have I got from Meckley which came from Jake Adams

 

[Crazymex408]

Those torches are going to blast everything around them (ask me how I know lol)

I will be moving it all today, after work. Just getting the money shot.

 

[derek_SR]

I would love a big piece for the new display! Did you originally get it from me? The ones I have I got from Meckley which came from Jake Adams

I got it from @Darkxerox , and have put a lot out into the club since.

 

[Darkxerox]

I got it from @Darkxerox , and have put a lot out into the club since.

And I got it from Keith via Jake

 

[Arvin R]

I'm terrible at identifying acro species, but it might be an acropora horrida. I used to see horrida at LFSes more often, but not so much anymore.

If anyone has an extra frag they like to share, I'll like a piece.

I got a piece for you once mine fully colors up.

 

[RandyC]

I got a piece for you once mine fully colors up.
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Thanks everyone!

 

[CaseyP]

Because of the lack of prominent axial corallites (polyps at the tip), I almost want to say this is an anacropora and not an acropora. Maybe anacropora puertogalerae.

I think this is the original colony while it was still at Stanford

Currently in the QT tank under an AI Prime
This was tonight and polyps extending.
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This was Sun night after a few hours of settling in.
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[tribbitt]

Because of the lack of prominent axial corallites (polyps at the tip), I almost want to say this is an anacropora and not an acropora. Maybe anacropora puertogalerae.

I think this is the original colony while it was still at Stanford
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The branches are birdsnest-level thin and very brittle.

There are some tips that look sort of like axial corallites, but I’m wondering if it’s an anacropora or isopora (doubting more and more the isopora ID).

Only things throwing me off are 1) some tips genuinely look like axial corallites, and 2) the coenosarc hosts symbiodinium colonies in a pattern that looks, visually to me, more like an acropora. But I’m away and need to look more closely

I don’t think it’s Anacropora puertogalerae, which looks like TNT anacro. Doesn’t have the same tips and it’s not so knobbly, and the coenosarc has a pattern, not just smooth

Excited to see as it continues to color up and grow in our tanks. I’m sure once @CaseyP gets one in person he can make a better guess

 

[tribbitt]

Man the pics got compressed

 

[MichaelB]

Because of the lack of prominent axial corallites (polyps at the tip), I almost want to say this is an anacropora and not an acropora. Maybe anacropora puertogalerae.

I think this is the original colony while it was still at Stanford
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It was already fragged up when I got there, so I didn't get to see it in person like this picture. Very well could be the same one. I did put a few on the free table at swap they were all taken. This one I'm eager to see what it eventually becomes. It's pretty intresting to look at in any case.

 

[CaseyP]

The branches are birdsnest-level thin and very brittle.

There are some tips that look sort of like axial corallites, but I’m wondering if it’s an anacropora or isopora (doubting more and more the isopora ID).

Only things throwing me off are 1) some tips genuinely look like axial corallites, and 2) the coenosarc hosts symbiodinium colonies in a pattern that looks, visually to me, more like an acropora. But I’m away and need to look more closely

Yea I see what you mean now in some of the pics they do look like axial corallites, but not definitive. We'll have to wait and see if someone gets it growing and if the growth tips are smooth or have the axial corallite.