jagermeister
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What's the difference between a green acro and a green slimer? Can someone post pics of the two?
Thanks!
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Difference between green acro and green slimer?
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sammystingray
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A "green slimer" is a type of green acropora coral.
brooklyn johnny
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Green slimer is the common name for Acropora yongei (in the pic). As mentioned green acro could be ANY green species in the genus acropora (or even any misidentified green SPS 
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Johnny
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brooklyn johnny
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Here is one that would fall under "green acropora"... also green staghorn, which is the growth form it grows into. This is all a result of many different species of acropora that many times look very similar and are almost impossible to tell apart even by experts, and thus go misidentified. Some are dead ringers though...
jagermeister
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Thanks for the replies!
So I have a couple of pictures of my green acro. Can anyone id it more accurately than just a 'green acro'?
Probably kind of hard to do that but we'll see.
So I have a couple of pictures of my green acro. Can anyone id it more accurately than just a 'green acro'?
Probably kind of hard to do that but we'll see.
jagermeister
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Another pic
brooklyn johnny
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While many things are green acros, that is no acropora. Looks like some type of Montipora digitata to me... definately no acro though... looks like you've had it a while and it's encrusting though... how long?
brooklyn johnny
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For comparison here is one of my digitatas... a super fast grower that comes in many colors...
jagermeister
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I actually got it on some live rock I bought from a guy tearing down his tank. It was probably in his tank for a couple of years.
It's been in my tank for a couple of months now but it's lost its polyps. It's just a pink skeleton. I think the polyps retracted when I added more light. Hopefully they'll come back.
So digitata, eh. That's good to know. Thanks for the id!
It's been in my tank for a couple of months now but it's lost its polyps. It's just a pink skeleton. I think the polyps retracted when I added more light. Hopefully they'll come back.
So digitata, eh. That's good to know. Thanks for the id!
brooklyn johnny
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No prob jager (mmmm thinking of jager the drink )... if the coral is ALL skeleton now there is unfortunately no chance of it coming back. It could have died for a million different reasons, but adding light probably wouldn't be one of them unless the change was super drastic. Digitata is the weed amongst sps...
)... if the coral is ALL skeleton now there is unfortunately no chance of it coming back. It could have died for a million different reasons, but adding light probably wouldn't be one of them unless the change was super drastic. Digitata is the weed amongst sps...
brooklyn johnny
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That's looks like a dead ringer for A. yongei and it is a hardy fast growing acro UNDER THE CORRECT conditions. Yours looks good so far and happy. They take off. Search around and you'll here good things about this species.
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brooklyn johnny
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Awesome skilos... what a great coral... too bad the old blue tort doesn't grow as fast... That baby will be branching off in no time...
That baby will be branching off in no time...
brooklyn johnny
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Originally posted by skilos1
no blue tort here but i do have a purple one. Grows extremely SLOW!! Although it's getting pretty big. I'll try to snap a picture of it.
There's many reasons some sps are expensive... some are...
1. rare
2. slow growing
3. blue
Combine those three and you get the blue tortuosa sometimes sold for $100 for a 1" frag
... What a hobby... let's see it skilos!
brooklyn johnny
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Is yours a purple monster? What's it's ancestry?
richard rendos
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Here are a couple of my green SPS...
