SPS identification help

[Texasreef]

Good afternoon everyone,

I picked up these two frags yesterday to try my hand at SPS finally. I’ve had success with lps & softies.

I believe what I’ve got is: (birds-nest & the second one I have no clue… is it a pocillopora)? The store owner told me they would be good starters and I got home and forgot the names haha.

 

[stewy14]

Good afternoon everyone,

I picked up these two frags yesterday to try my hand at SPS finally. I’ve had success with lps & softies.

I believe what I’ve got is: (birds-nest & the second one I have no clue… is it a pocillopora)? The store owner told me they would be good starters and I got home and forgot the names haha.

im sorry, but im so close to being able to id it
but whites plz
Im sorry
and also, keep camera parallel with the tank

 

[Texasreef]

im sorry, but im so close to being able to id it
but whites plz
Im sorry
and also, keep camera parallel with the tank

 

[MoshJosh]

Very hard to see fist pic on my phone but. . . Anacropora?

Second is pavona

 

[C. Eymann]

Montipora hisutra

pavona, maybe P. decussata

 

[Dburr1014]

Green pavona, aka, cactus coral, potato chip coral.

Birdsnest yes, hardly a begginer coral. Very finicky, fine one day, dead the next. Need extremely stable water, IME.

Very hard to see fist pic on my phone but. . . Anacropora?

Second is pavona

You could be on to something, doesn't look like a typical birdsnest.

 

[Texasreef]

Green pavona, aka, cactus coral, potato chip coral.

Birdsnest yes, hardly a begginer coral. Very finicky, fine one day, dead the next. Need extremely stable water, IME.



You could be on to something, doesn't look like a typical birdsnest.

The shop owner mentioned the name to me and the only thing I can remember is he called it “horn” something, could be a stag horn acro?

 

[C. Eymann]

The shop owner mentioned the name to me and the only thing I can remember is he called it “horn” something, could be a stag horn acro?

No axial corallites= no Acropora
It's a branching species of Montipora called Montipora hirsuta

 

[Dburr1014]

The shop owner mentioned the name to me and the only thing I can remember is he called it “horn” something, could be a stag horn acro?

It's possible it could be a staghorn but those typically are a little thicker in the branches. You may have to let this one grow out a tad before we can see what it is.

For instance here is one of my Stags, it's a green slimer.

 

[encrustingacro]

branching one is either Anacro or Monti; would need a clearer photo to tell (papillae present = monti)
Other one is Pavona cf decussata

 

[Aquadude1]

Montipora hisutra

pavona, maybe P. decussata

I agree on the hirsuta id. As it grows a little it will become more obvious.

 

[Aquadude1]

The shop owner mentioned the name to me and the only thing I can remember is he called it “horn” something, could be a stag horn acro?

Could have been Elkhorn? That would most likely be montipora hirsuta.

 

[Texasreef]

Could have been Elkhorn? That would most likely be montipora hirsuta.

You know I can’t say for sure, but the “elkhorn” most definitely seems to resemble it