Blue acro / red polyp ID Please

[Alfie]

Hello all

Looking for a little help with the id of this one if possible. Hopefully the photos are good enough. It is Blue/ purple with bright red polyps. Ive had this for over a year and came to me as a sub nub lol literally a couple of polyps and is now about 1.5" across.

Anyway it would be great if someone could offer an id, common name and species. Closest i have come to on Google is R66 Purple hearts Acropora Route edition Route 66, obviously a name created by a farm but as I am in the UK it is unlikely from them.

Anyway, any thoughts would be great to hear

Cheers!

 

[matt_work27]

kinda similar to arc fireworks maybe?

 

[Dburr1014]

Hello all

Looking for a little help with the id of this one if possible. Hopefully the photos are good enough. It is Blue/ purple with bright red polyps. Ive had this for over a year and came to me as a sub nub lol literally a couple of polyps and is now about 1.5" across.

Anyway it would be great if someone could offer an id, common name and species. Closest i have come to on Google is R66 Purple hearts Acropora Route edition Route 66, obviously a name created by a farm but as I am in the UK it is unlikely from them.

Anyway, any thoughts would be great to hear

Cheers!

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Maybe send a frag to me so I can take a closer look!
Stunning!

 

[Alfie]

kinda similar to arc fireworks maybe?

That is pretty close, although mine does have more solid colour. It does seem to be a bit more unusual than I first thought. Thanks for the suggestion

 

[Reefing102]

It’s the Alfie Cotton Candy

 

[sculpin01]

Acropora donei.

 

[Alfie]

It’s the Alfie Cotton Candy

lol, to be honest im not so bothered with the common names . I think every coral out there have multiple names anyway, would be nice to know though especially as I cant find anything much like this and I have replicated the colours pretty accurately I think

 

[Alfie]

Acropora donei.

Brilliant that does look like it thank you. And I suspect it came from a chop shop which makes sense as it was probably an Oz import

 

[sculpin01]

The donei acros that are imported here are usually shades of pink, purple, blue, or mauve, with purple being the most common and often with contrasting polyps and occasional green shading.

 

[Alfie]

The donei acros that are imported here are usually shades of pink, purple, blue, or mauve, with purple being the most common and often with contrasting polyps and occasional green shading.

Thanks for the info. Ive had this for just over a year, when i first got it it was a blue tinge with red polyps but like i said earlier it was ver very small frag. Lets see how it progresses. Ironically after asking the question here I watched an ozzie channel on youtube and they actually showed a donei that had been wild caught and was very much like mine. Im hoping it holds the colour