Sps id?

[Oscarr19]

I just put this coral in my tank and it was growing really fast at my LFS. My manager couldn't put remember the exact name though.

Looks like a digitata but I may be wrong. I'm new to sps.

 

[bribo12]

Birdsnest. Seriatopora guttatus

 

[Oscarr19]

Ah it is! This is exactly it. Thanks!

 

[bribo12]

No problem! Nice fast growing sps

 

[Oscarr19]

What's the best way to remove it from the frag plug and glue it to the rock? Would I have to cut it off?

 

[bribo12]

You could just break it off near the base

 

[Oscarr19]

Cool, thanks! It's pretty big already and I think I'm gonna frag it. Got this piece for 14$!

 

[bribo12]

Nice good deal! Plenty of light and flow and that sucker will take off

 

[Oscarr19]

Exactly what I want!

 

[Oscarr19]

One last question lol if I glue the piece to my rock, eventually it will encrust over my rock. Now, if I want to frag it I'd have to snap the colony from the encrusted part. Can I just re-glue the colony back over the encrusted part on my rock when I'm done?

 

[bribo12]

Birdsnest doesn't really encrust. Mine did kinda but my other 2 birdsnest did not. Heck when I frag mine I just break it straight off the main colony but it usually doesn't encrust

 

[Oscarr19]

Kind of looks like it did on the frag plug, or at least laid down it's base.

 

[bribo12]

Yeah I see that now. I doubt it will put much more down though

 

[Oscarr19]

Just so I know for any other encrusting coral that I can just break off the colony to frag and then glue it back where I broke it off on the encrusted part?

 

[mr_X]

I'm voting stylo. I don't think it's a birdsnest. Like bribo said, I don't believe they encrust/attach to anything.

 

[bribo12]

Hmm it could be. The polyps look like either lol but the encrusting doesn't fit birdsnest. Do you have a pic of it fully open?

 

[Oscarr19]

I originally thought stylophora but the pictures I found looked like really thick branches. Here is it opened up. Sorry the color isn't too great, I don't have blues but my LEDs are coming in this week.

 

[bribo12]

Hmm here's my bn to compare

 

[bribo12]

I think it's stylo the branches are much thicker

 

[mr_X]

It does look like seriatopora caliendrum, but I don't think I've ever seen one encrust.