Thinking of adding my first SPS, is this Birdnest a good first choice?

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  1. blackraven1425

    blackraven1425 Giant Squid

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    Have you tried the acro ID guide? It may help, at least to narrow it down a bit.
     
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  3. Corailline

    Corailline Super Moderator

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    It is a dry heat, yeah right !
    Oh very nice link. Did you find your ID yet ?

    Thanks for the link.:)
     
  4. blackraven1425

    blackraven1425 Giant Squid

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    It came up with hyacinthus at an 85% match (the factors that weren't matched were branch diameter, which I put in unknown for, and corallite shape, which I'm not going to take it out to see clearly enough - just look at the detail it asks lol), so I'm sticking with jonjon's ID of hyacinthus. Especially since the site mentions that hyacinthus have a "whirl" around the short tabled branches. Mine clearly has the corallites arranged in twisted lines around a couple of the longer branches, if I'm interpreting the meaning of "whirl" correctly.
     
  5. jonjonwells

    jonjonwells Great Blue Whale

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    I stole this pic from Corailline... hope she doesn't mind. This shows the "whirl" patter perfectly that they are talking about.
     

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  6. blackraven1425

    blackraven1425 Giant Squid

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    I just went and took a look, and it seems to have that whirl.

    So, is a red planet supposed to be a hyacinthus? lol
     
  7. jonjonwells

    jonjonwells Great Blue Whale

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    John from ORA can not even give a definite ID of the species. He received the original frag from a private source in Germany. There are several guesses out there, to include hyacinthus, but they are just that.