I'd appreciate an id - lavender on green piece

[madmac]

thnx. :)

http://i121.photobucket.com/albums/o225/madmac_bb/Grn_lavender_id.jpg

and tis ;

http://i121.photobucket.com/albums/o225/madmac_bb/Gne_Lavender_side.jpg

[Brewen]

Sorry I cannot help with ID but what an awesome piece..

[Kolognekoral]

I would tip on A. cerealis, as it looks to be caespitose-corymbose (interlocking bush) in growth form with slightly reflexed coralites. Not nariform enough for A. nasuta.

A very beautiful coral. Nice catch!

[SDguy]

How does chesterfieldensis differ?

[fijiblue]

Looks to me like a cross between Rosaria and Austera. They have been coming in aquacultured looking like that. Sweet colors. What kind of lighting do you have it under?

[Kolognekoral]

Peter,

A. chesterfieldensis has larger axial corallites, while the radials are short and appressed. They really touch each other. The pictured coral doesn't have appressed corallites and they are relatively long. Also, A. chesterfieldensis is very much digitate in it's colony form, not corymbose-caespitose.

ta-da :p

Sorry, just getting silly as the sun goes down.......

[SDguy]

Oh, ok, I see. So is this chesterfieldensis, as I have always believed it to be?
http://i124.photobucket.com/albums/p5/SDreefguy/Underwater%20photos%2012-20-06/UnknownGlobalAquaticschesterfielden.jpg

http://i124.photobucket.com/albums/p5/SDreefguy/Underwater%20photos%2012-20-06/UnknownGlobalAquaticschesterfiel-1.jpg

Sorry for the hijack madmac :D

[Kolognekoral]

Peter,

I think he will forgive the hi-jack :D

It looks somewhat like A. chesterfieldensis to me, although the axials are a bit smaller than I have seen and the over-all form is slightly corymbose instead of digitate. It actually might be A. kimbeensis or A. cerealis, but I'm not sure, as both should have less appressed coralites. Wallaces book would rule them out, but Veron's works would include them as possible. Wallaces book favours A. chesterfieldensis.

Hope this helps....:mixed:

[SDguy]

Thanks..actually since that pic was taken, the piece has grown several longer, non branching pieces.

[madmac]

Thank you both, Jamie and fijiblue,

I thought about Rosaria too. :) Its wild from Sulawesi.

Its kept under a single 250W 10000k BLV and 4 Aqauz 39W T5s (1 BluePro and 3 OceanPro)