Montipora Sweetnes

I am a fan of a number of corals but so far it seems that the montipora variety has a never ending number of forms and colors.its plasticity is amazing in some cases.branching encrusting,plating and some that plain grow to the flow.i would love to collect some more of these interesting corals.
check out his one that is green with blue polyps.....pretty cool.
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here is a small piece of the idaho grape i traded for.a nice dark purple on this plate monti.
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You do have some nice Montis. I particularly like the green with blue polyps, that's a nice color combo.

Did I ever give you a piece of my thin plate red? There's a small piece laying on the sand that I've been meaning to scoop up. The goby keeps covering it with sand and I keep blowing it off, repeat. I'm just too lazy to actually deal with it. Its a small piece, but this is the fastest growing Monti I've ever had or seen.

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Nice! that Green and Blue one looks sweet! Although that grape one looks awesome too...

The thin red Monti. I have a small chunk for you badx. Really small, but this grows fast.

That last monti looks almost pink. So it is not the red/orange under bright lights?Nice pics.

had to add in this little gem...its a pastel purple with little blue polyps.not too shabby.one of my new favs.
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here is a close up of some of the polyps off of a purple montipora capricornus frag.you can see a little burn on the guy from a adjacent coral.
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and just for fun here is that grape again.
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Now that Capriconus frag looks sweet! Up to trade some Zoas for it?

what do you got?

here is a frag i recieved quite some time ago from MVP.this guy was destined for the coral reef in the sky had i not snagged him.now it has been fragged countless time again.its getting a few shelfs to many.
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montopra foliosa i believe.
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here is the intersting underside.like a hollow living mountain.

WHOA!!! Beautiful.

it seems have a really interesting growth pattern and remindss me of that plasticity corals have from enviroments such as flow.i have apiece for you if you like it.

here is an update on some of the montiporas i have growing out...i can always use more though
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Montipora Danae
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another form of capricornus green with a pruple rim.

This is a nice one,its bright green with blue polyps...

Its also a plating monti,a little slower growing though.

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Seasons Greetings Montipora

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Holly Crap! That seasons greetings looks so nice in that picture, I hardly noticed it in person.Might need to cut that monti there and spread the genes a little,back it up.

Thanks Badx,this variety had me perplexed for a while.There is a Tyree seasons greetings,three seasons and a seasons greetings montipora.All of which may be the same coral.In addition there is a chilli pepper monti which looks very similar except that it is a encrusting coral.As you can see from the photo the seasons greetings encrust and plates.I hate to admit it,but it does need a trimming.This piece grew into a rock and would need to be fragged with a saw.

Here's your grape all grown-up:
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And a macro shot of a green purple rim:
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