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acro-poorer
07-04-05, 21:41
http://www.ultimatereef.net/uploads/mini-pict0001.jpg
sorry unable to post piccie some sort of orange polyped monti but i cant find any reference

acro-poorer
07-04-05, 21:54
http://www.ultimatereef.net/photopost/uploads/4281/mini-PICT0001.JPG
right thats got it photo dont do it credit but the polyps are a deep orange looking for common and scientific name please

bs0u20a2
07-04-05, 22:12
Montipora digitata, Doesnt really have a common name as such.

Nick :thumbsup:

acro-poorer
07-04-05, 22:19
thanks nick thats the area i was moving in but never seen one with such orange polyps before so it did have me wondering
so it be a plain ol orange monti

:thanx: :cheers:

bs0u20a2
07-04-05, 22:23
Yeah you see them with various different coloured polyps, oranges, yellows and reds, through greens to lilacs and purples....I had one damn near identacle to yours, grows like a weed once it gets its foot in the door!

Nick :thumbsup:

acro-poorer
07-04-05, 22:33
yea its odd ive got green identical to yours and have been around marines a few years but its something that i havent seen before in orange or not this deep an orange odd in as at one time i was virtualy camped at stm an im sure i would have seen it there before but oddly not oh well better go to specsavers :lol: :lol:

Mikey
07-04-05, 23:40
M Dig to me too.