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/The Best Livestock For Your Reef Aquarium:
Quintessential Small Polyped Stony Corals, the
Staghorns, Family Acroporidae, pt. 2
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Acropora lamarcki (formerly corymbosa), Veron 2000. Colonies
as corymbose plates up to 2 m across. Plates of short, upright branchlets
that are more tapering upward. Axial corallites are exsert, tubular, with
flaring outer lips. Red Sea images. |
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Acropora tenuis (formerly eurystoma)
(Dana 1846). Colonies as corymbose clumps. Often with their fine
branches evenly spaced. Corallites: Axial ones are long, tubular. Radial
ones in neat rosettes with flaring colored lips. Common on Res Sea Rocky
Reef Slopes. Above, left and below,
the last captively propagated through fragmentation. This is a wide-spread
Indo-Pacific species that generally forms large, even colonies in the
wild. |
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Umm, a purple
Acropora monticulosa in Fiji... not air-brushed, I swear!
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Acropora palmata, Elkhorn Coral. Found in
the tropical West Atlantic. Established stands are 3-12 feet in diameter,
with branches of 2-10 inch width. Occasionally "occurs" on live
rock cultured for the trade. Pictured, a large stand in Belize and a
budding colony in an aquarium. |
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Acropora prolifera, the Fused Staghorn.
Photos of a colony in
Cancun, Mexico, and a "found" cultured specimen in
captivity.
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Acropora robusta forms irregular colonies
with thick, upward pointing branches. Much appreciated by hiding fishes and
invertebrates. |
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Above, left, and below are Acropora valida, the
most widespread member of the genus, found from the east coast of Africa
and the Red Sea all the way across the Pacific to the west coast of
Central America. An adaptable and useful aquarium species. The last is a
tank-raised fragment. |
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