coral i.d please

[BUGZME]

Does anyone know what this coral is?

[Reptoreef]

i KNOW!!! It's a definite "I belong in Repto's Tank sps"... I'll prove it too. Just run it up and leave it here. LOL... looks like a monti spp... very nice!!!

Repto

[BUGZME]

A Monti what? I put this pic on reef central and nobody knows what it is either! I guess I really lucked out huh

[jerryc]

Bugs that is the one i lost send it home please :-D

[dakar]

Repto and Jerry are both off, by about a 1,000 miles. (That belongs in WI)

I've never seen anything quite like that yet, very unique.

[Reptoreef]

I was looking into a few books(Sprung, Borneman)... no real identity, yet. In fact, the only thing that looked similar was a pillar forming acro, minus the plating-type monti base.

[Reef_Angel]

That is very unique looking coral. You really found yourself a beautiful prize! Did you just happen onto this beauty in an LFS?

[BUGZME]

No I bought it from the pres of the idaho reef society. I talked to him today and he still thinks it's a grape But I really don't think so.

[TOOMANYFISH]

I've seen that in a friends tank and he told me it was some type of monti

[ramoth41]

I found somthing in Spung's "Corals Quick Reference Guide"
Montipora Digitata..(cabbage,lettuce,finger coral).. From the Red Sea Indo Pacific laggons,reef flats and protected upper reef slopes--Very shallow water strong light.
Purple morph-- .....encrusting or branching.... VERY light weight skeleton.....small polyps in depressions over colony surface.....simular to Porites corals
There is pic on page 31 Looks alot like what you have there! Says it's pretty hardy and non aggressive! I had some monti that grew like mad untill I had my big bleaching crash!
hope that helps! :D
sarah