SPS Hitch Hiker ID

Dentoid · 05-30-2007, 11:22 PM

I just noticed this SPS on a mushroom rock I got a few months back. It's very small, just bigger than a pencil eraser, with green polyps. Can anyone ID this?

blue_eyes53813 · 05-30-2007, 11:26 PM

Looks like a pocillopora acro to me.

Frankie · 05-30-2007, 11:30 PM

fuzzy little bugger too! I think blue is right.

Dentoid · 05-30-2007, 11:33 PM

Cool! It's growing like mad. When I first got the rock I didn't see it there. My first acro! Woo Hoo!

InLimbo87 · 05-30-2007, 11:34 PM

Wow! Very cool.. I would also say pocillipora but its just so hard to tell when they're that small.

blue_eyes53813 · 05-30-2007, 11:38 PM

Looks like it has a pink base with green polyps?? I paid about 50 bucks for mine... nice freeby for you.

kimoy · 05-30-2007, 11:40 PM

definitely a pocillipora. i have one exactly the same as that.

aquaman3680 · 05-31-2007, 09:45 AM

yep thats a poci! or it could actually be a stylophora but they look very similar and have very similar needs!

Matt

mps9506 · 05-31-2007, 08:51 PM

It looks like a "pocci" to me. But it is not an acro. Those are two different generas of coral.

Dentoid · 05-31-2007, 09:50 PM

Ooops! Well, my first Pocci! Woo Hoo!

05-30-2007, 11:22 PM	#1 (permalink)
Dentoid Over Achiever Join Date: Dec 2006 Location: Virginia Posts: 10,827 View Gallery Karma Komment	SPS Hitch Hiker ID I just noticed this SPS on a mushroom rock I got a few months back. It's very small, just bigger than a pencil eraser, with green polyps. Can anyone ID this? __________________ Scott Dentoid's Reeforama

05-30-2007, 11:26 PM	#2 (permalink)
blue_eyes53813 Hey!Its not my fault Join Date: Nov 2003 Location: Lancaster, Wisconsin Posts: 7,241 View Gallery Karma Komment Add yours!	Re: SPS Hitch Hiker ID Looks like a pocillopora acro to me. __________________ 265 Gallon Reef built into basement wall. Lighting = 6x250 watts MH, 2x96 watt PC ,and 2x140 watt VHO for a total watt of 1,972 watts . New addition on 4-14-07 of 100 gallon sump and 100 gallon refugium. I think I have lost my mind. Gotta love this hobby Vicki Life is like a pathway of untrodden snow. Be careful how you step in it for every mark will show Definition of FRIENDSHIP: All lives touch other lives to create something new and alive My tank chronicles. http://www.reefsanctuary.com/forums/...wall-reef.html

05-30-2007, 11:33 PM	#4 (permalink)
Dentoid Over Achiever Join Date: Dec 2006 Location: Virginia Posts: 10,827 View Gallery Karma Komment	Re: SPS Hitch Hiker ID Cool! It's growing like mad. When I first got the rock I didn't see it there. My first acro! Woo Hoo! __________________ Scott Dentoid's Reeforama

05-30-2007, 11:34 PM	#5 (permalink)
InLimbo87 Elegance coral Join Date: Mar 2007 Location: Orlando Posts: 1,002 View Gallery Karma Komment Add yours!	Re: SPS Hitch Hiker ID Wow! Very cool.. I would also say pocillipora but its just so hard to tell when they're that small. __________________ We are forever responsible for that which we tame... Oceanic 33g Cube Tank Thread ~Ian~

05-30-2007, 11:38 PM	#6 (permalink)
blue_eyes53813 Hey!Its not my fault Join Date: Nov 2003 Location: Lancaster, Wisconsin Posts: 7,241 View Gallery Karma Komment Add yours!	Re: SPS Hitch Hiker ID Looks like it has a pink base with green polyps?? I paid about 50 bucks for mine... nice freeby for you. __________________ 265 Gallon Reef built into basement wall. Lighting = 6x250 watts MH, 2x96 watt PC ,and 2x140 watt VHO for a total watt of 1,972 watts . New addition on 4-14-07 of 100 gallon sump and 100 gallon refugium. I think I have lost my mind. Gotta love this hobby Vicki Life is like a pathway of untrodden snow. Be careful how you step in it for every mark will show Definition of FRIENDSHIP: All lives touch other lives to create something new and alive My tank chronicles. http://www.reefsanctuary.com/forums/...wall-reef.html

05-30-2007, 11:40 PM	#7 (permalink)
kimoy Sea Pen Join Date: Feb 2007 Posts: 338 View Gallery Karma Komment Add yours!	Re: SPS Hitch Hiker ID definitely a pocillipora. i have one exactly the same as that. __________________ 1.20 G pico RR with 2 megaflow kits, aqua c EV180 with mag12, 2x250 DE 12k halides with 2x54 T5 actinic+, 30G phlenum fuge with chaeto, iwaki 55rlt return pump connected to a sea swirl, 4 tunze 6025 inside the main tank for water circulation (2 are modded) 3 Koralias PH(2 #4's and 1 #3) sps,lps,zoas,softies,pink tip BTA tangs - yellow, unicorn, blue hippo, palini and RS Purple Blue Spot Jaw Fish red lyretail anthias pair of spotted mandarin goby wrasse - yellow corris scribble rabbit fish Clown Fish -3 percula high fin shrimp goby clean up crew - various snails and crabs, red linkia star And a 30G AGA softies with clown & diamond head goby

05-31-2007, 09:45 AM	#8 (permalink)
aquaman3680 Golden Moray Join Date: Jun 2006 Location: Overland Park, KS Posts: 2,155 View Gallery Karma Komment Add yours!	Re: SPS Hitch Hiker ID yep thats a poci! or it could actually be a stylophora but they look very similar and have very similar needs! Matt __________________ Check it out! The 90 gallon Road Trip

05-31-2007, 08:51 PM	#9 (permalink)
mps9506 Totally stoked dude Join Date: Jan 2004 Location: Wilmington, NC Posts: 7,518 View Gallery Karma Komment	Re: SPS Hitch Hiker ID It looks like a "pocci" to me. But it is not an acro. Those are two different generas of coral. __________________ Mike "The Bandwith Bandit" Help Build Reefpedia Premium Membership Available! Support Reef Sanctuary Sponsors

05-31-2007, 09:50 PM	#10 (permalink)
Dentoid Over Achiever Join Date: Dec 2006 Location: Virginia Posts: 10,827 View Gallery Karma Komment	Re: SPS Hitch Hiker ID Ooops! Well, my first Pocci! Woo Hoo! __________________ Scott Dentoid's Reeforama

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