Need Help 2 ID Coral

[stingnyc]

Can someone please help me ID this SPS coral. I've asked a few people and nobody seems to know what it is. The tips on the coral is finally starting to color up. Here are the pics:

 

[zahner]

I'll venture a guess: Acropora valida

 

[House of Laughter]

hehehehe purple monster

House

 

[stingnyc]

Haha, I wish I had a large colony of PM. I do have a PM and a purple valida and it doesnt look the same...

 

[bad coffee]

animalia Sub:Metazoa
Cnidaria
Anthozoa
Scleractinia
It's a hard coral. So you're on your own. . .

BC

 

[holyherbiness]

lol.

 

[MrAnderson]

hey steve whassup
It looks like an Acropora that's been grown in an extremely high flow area, i.e. semi-encrusting with short branches. Because it may have adapted its morphology for life in a high flow area it may be hard to get a definitive id. It may be something that it doesn't look like at first glance. However, I'd say the discrete corallites put it in the Acropora genus at least.

 

[ctxmonitor]

That is a nice looking acro, I say. Awesome shot btw..