Need an sps ID

[BlueTORT]

I picked this piece up from plano pets a month back.

Just seein what type of acro it is.

cant wait till it takes off!

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[BlueTORT]

thats what i was thinkin. ive seen them with pruple tips, but never with a yellow base like that.

thanx Matt

 

[Hunchback]

Purple Validia, pretty sure, thats just like mine.

 

[DaveJ]

Tricolor valida perhaps....

http://liveaquaria.com/product/prod_display.cfm?pcatid=1657&N=0

 

[BlueTORT]

@DaveJ wrote:

looks pretty similar. the ORA one has more purple but mine might grow up like that! that would be sweet

thanx yall.

Evan

 

[hegi]

hopefully some day it will look like this:

 

[gmax]

Could be A Nana too. The two are very similar in appearance.

 

[Bpynckel]

where is ashlar to tell us all that we are wrong...

HAHA, yes A. Valida is the name.

 

[Bpynckel]

@gmax wrote:

nana has VERY thin stalks.

 

[Rick]

@Bpynckel wrote:

I don't believe Ashlar ever told anyone they were wrong about the species name they were giving to any acropora they were trying to identify. He was pointing out and I totally agree with him, NO ONE can identify any species of acropora by merely looking at pictures on a computer screen. The only way to identify a species is to bleach a frag to the skeleton and look at it under a microscope. Any identification other than that and certainly just by looking at pictures is merely a guess by ANYONE.
But there is nothing wrong with guessing.

 

[kwl1763]

Acropora sp :lol:

I mean ya it's MOST LIKELY a valida or nana but who knows without bleaching!

 

[Ashlar]

@Bpynckel wrote:

lol,

If the experts can't always agree, even with bleach and a microscope, then you might as well pin names to a dartboard and fling darts at it going by a picture.