Humor me!

[ReefWreak]

okay, I had to title it SOMETHING else... Every thread in this forum is "Acro ID" or "monti ID" or something boooring like that...

Anyway, to the goods:

Picked this up from the frag swap 2 years ago. no idea what it is, but it's quite delicate (easily broken/snapped).

Before breaking a lot:

http://lh6.ggpht.com/_iXqSzxJH8Mc/Sm-PyxBL8II/AAAAAAAABLQ/Eh3uZLwIUe4/s400/DSC_0284.JPG

After breaking a lot (rockslide):

http://lh6.ggpht.com/_iXqSzxJH8Mc/Sm-OjmS4DFI/AAAAAAAABK0/kw73opYNei0/s400/DSC_0377.JPG

Then this one, it's a picture from while I was diving. Found in about 20ft of water. It's a smoothskin, so I use it to prove a point when people are having those "smoothskin corals are deepwater corals" discussions to prove them wrong. It would be nice to know what it is.

http://lh5.ggpht.com/_iXqSzxJH8Mc/SWQeSZAfUPI/AAAAAAAAAwY/AehUNReMLmI/s400/DSCN5050.JPG

[Atomikk]

The first one is a monitpora.. forget the species... The second looks like a A. loripes

[Atomikk]

If not loripes, then A. granulosa

[ReefWreak]

Thank you for the IDs. I was thinking A. Palmatta on the first one, but in researching the A. Pamatta I did come across people showing a montipora that looked similar. I wonder which it is.

[Whisperer]

Check out m. samarensis

[ReefWreak]

Yea, it looks almost similar to the M. Samarensis that liveaquaria sells. Mine just never sticks any polyps out. The thing that is really starting to stick out to me suggesting that it isn't A. Palmatta is that it doesn't have pronounced Axial Corallites like from this article in Advanced Aquarist:

From: http://www.advancedaquarist.com/2007/12/aafeature2
http://www.advancedaquarist.com/2007/12/aafeature2_album/figure8.jpg

Who knows though. The growth form looks sort of like A. Palmatta, but it's very brittle like a montipora. I've got enough frags (it's very brittle) that I should just bleach one of them and examine it under a microscope (where to get a microscope...).

Did AIMS ever come back? I know I've been to their newer site, but it didn't have ANY of the really amazing pictures that their old coral search database had. Maybe I went to the wrong area?