ID help please

[Sherita]

Can someone give me a hand here? It's some kind of monti (I think), but I would like to get a bit closer than "kinda" if possible.

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Contrary to this photo, the mat is actually a bright orange color. The polyps are fluorescent bright green.

[Big_Pun]

pretty sure it's sunset Monti

[hobogato]

picture looks like Montipora hispida

check out this link, most of the way down:

http://www.greghiller.com/sps_corals.htm

[FireWater]

I thought the same Ace, but she said it was bright orange base. That threw me off. It has the identical growth pattern of my, your and now Mike's Hispida.

[Sherita]

That's it! Thanks Ace :)


picture looks like Montipora hispida
check out this link, most of the way down:

http://www.greghiller.com/sps_corals.htm

[FireWater]

I have never seen one with an orange base. Are we talking Sunkist orange or yellow orange? If yellow orange then it might be a morph due to your lighting. The colony I had and the subsequent frags were always a mint green base. The growth pattern is identical though.

[Sherita]

John, best way I can describe it is longhorn orange with a burnt orange "tinge" in some spots. Wish I could get a better picture, but my camera is smarter than I am.

Edit: the base/mat is definitely not any shade of green at all, the only green is the fluorescent green polyps.

[FireWater]

http://i127.photobucket.com/albums/p157/perry4083/PDRM3839.jpg

This is a pic of my old Hispida. It is the one on the right side of the pic. Is that close to yours?