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It's the navy blue one. The one above the setosa to it's right. The tips are a dark green under actinics and it has brown polyps.

 

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I got it from a fellow reefer. I forgot her name. She broke her tank down about 4 or 5 months ago. She didn't know the name of it.

No, it's the same color but this grows smooth shoot like branches with 1 polyp on the end. Oregon tort has multiple polyps on it's branches.

oregon tort?

Very hard to tell from that pic, but sounds like the ORA blue voodoo.

my guess would be oregon tort also...

Looks like a tort to me, too, although that's based mostly on color. Perhaps a Miyagi tort, I had one that looked like that. The growth patterns are not indicative always of what a sps is as different conditions produce very different looking corals (e.g. the purple monster thread awhile back). The axial corralite is the one at the tip and is indicative of sps, when you say that it doesn't have any other polyps does that mean that there's a complete absence of any radial corralites?

 

Another guess is a Suharsonoi based on the description of a lack of radial corralites and the coloration you presented, but it's very difficult to tell with the picture you have. Any chance of a better shot?

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Expect it to grow really slow. Mine has grown only 1 cm in about 6 months. Mine doesn't have brown polyp though.

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Do you have it high up in your tank close to the light? Mine is high up and it has almost doubled in size since I got it. I got it about 5 or 6 months ago.

 

Expect it to grow really slow. Mine has grown only 1 cm in about 6 months. Mine doesn't have brown polyp though.

I have it fairly high up but off to the side. I have a lot of other SPS that are growing at a brisk rate so it's not a tank issue. I've seen a bunch of Blue Iris pics but never seen brown hairy polyps with them. I'm not convinced you have Blue Iris just by growth rate alone. A lot of people on Reefcentral also report bonsai growth rate with them. There are other ORA corals that are teal/blue with brown polyps like Joe The Coral. Unfortunately, a lot of ORA corals have very similar colors. Look up the ORA site for a complete listing and pics of all their corals. If you have brown polyp, it's not Oregon tort or Blue Iris....mine is all blue.

 

 

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This is what I have. In my system it's a very dark, almost navy blue, with a lighter bluish purple (still dark) towards the center in my tank under my 14K's. The growth pattern and polyps are identical.

http://glassbox-desi...-iris-acropora/

Unfotunately not all SPS extend their polyps in all systems. The colors are also not always the same in every system. ORA does not have blue iris listed on their site. That's the first place I went to when someone mentioned ORA.

J

 

I have it fairly high up but off to the side. I have a lot of other SPS that are growing at a brisk rate so it's not a tank issue. I've seen a bunch of Blue Iris pics but never seen brown hairy polyps with them. I'm not convinced you have Blue Iris just by growth rate alone. A lot of people on Reefcentral also report bonsai growth rate with them. There are other ORA corals that are teal/blue with brown polyps like Joe The Coral. Unfortunately, a lot of ORA corals have very similar colors. Look up the ORA site for a complete listing and pics of all their corals. If you have brown polyp, it's not Oregon tort or Blue Iris....mine is all blue.

 

 

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Here's pic of Blue Iris

 

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Here's some pic of Joe the coral

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In about 5 years, if yours look like this...you win...LOL

 

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