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Solitaryensis

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Anyone know if this piece has a name? I know, I know. Just curious since it’s the oldest and largest piece in my tank :)
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It was actually traded to me initially as a Cali Tort but agree with Ash that the color isn’t consistent with normal tort colors and the more round corallites leads me to think it could be something else?


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Solitaryensis said:
It was actually traded to me initially as a Cali Tort but agree with Ash that the color isn’t consistent with normal tort colors and the more round corallites leads me to think it could be something else?


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It can give the purple tips you are seeing. I still think its cali tort. I used to have my cali tort change colors with trace elements dosing.
 
I just looked it up and it looks a bit darker than yours.

DBTC: Tricolor Valida Acro

Make sure you are able to always have a frag of this available to pass on in the dbtc before selling heres 1 frag ready to go I am located in san mateo (this is my first time doing DBTC so sorry if I messed up the thread format or something)
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You know, I think the shape of the corallites actually resemble valida more closely than tort. Hmmmmmm


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Valida typically gets deep green skin with purple tips and bright green corallites. This looks closer to an Austrea acro. I have one in my tank but it is way too small to compare and very much new to the tank. But the bubbly appearance and shape resembles an Austrea. Although the teal color is very different than what I've seen.

I have a few pieces in my tank that I have no idea what they are but they are really pretty. This one could fall in this category.. ha! It's a gorgeous piece regardless.
 
Well I think the big problem is this hobby is more interested in giving fancy names then actually correct identification of corals, and yeah including the tricolor valida .

If you look at this, the coralites seem more bulb shaped, or stubby cylinders, that are tightly packed (could be wild growth vs aquarium growth mind you).
 
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