Anyone care to help me ID this?

[purplegorilla]

Bought couple of corals online. One was suppose to be purple monster. To this day I still don't know which one out of the bunch I got from the seller. I emailed him and he has no clue. :roll: Anyways, this frag is starting to color back up but still have a brownish color with the base encrusting in purple.

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[glxtrix]

The growth pattern on it is similar to the PM...so it very well could be. Give it lots of light and flow and see what happens!

 

[purplegorilla]

Yeah I am thinking this is it more and more everyday. I got it in high lighting and flow. That's why it starting to have purple color. When I first got it, it was completely tan. Then when my chiller crashed, it was almost white :wow2:. Anyways, I googled Purple Monster. Some has green polyps, some has white polyps, and some has purple polyps. One post said the original Tyree purple monster is too rare and possible dont' exist anymore. Most of the latter are probably imposter. Anyone in here has one that can take a picture for confirmation?

 

[elfloyd]

Garf Bonsai?

Has the growth pattern and color.

 

[purplegorilla]

Definitely not GARF, I have garf and they tend to be not stubby.

 

[seth the wine guy]

elFloyd;809778 wrote: Garf Bonsai?

Has the growth pattern and color.

That's what I thought too. I have a bleached out Garf very similar in every aspect to what you have. Some of the polyps on mine are white and others green.

One thing I've noticed is structure cannot always be used to identify corals.

Jorge at Pure Reef and I have a Red Milli cut from the same exact mother. His looks like a lanky Charlie Brown Christmas tree and mine is a massive table. I completely attribute growth pattern and structure to differing amounts of flow.

I took a top down shot of the milli here. It's one large table supported by a trunk about 3" high. You would swear they weren't the same coral looking at the two.
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[acroholic]

AFAIK, the original purple monster should have white polyps.

 

[elfloyd]

purpleGORILLA;809779 wrote: Definitely not GARF, I have garf and they tend to be not stubby.

Maybe... but perhaps my Garf wasn't a Garf after all. Looked just like the picture.

 

[snowmansnow]

I'm puttin my money on ORA Plum Crazy.. I have frags that are VERY VERY similar to it...

Edit: hmmmm i donno.. the plum crazy is the one on the end of this frag rack

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[snowmansnow]

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Well... Here's a pic

 

[snowmansnow]

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Another... Looks like my coralites are longer

 

[ripped tide]

Trinh, you can let me grow it out for you, and I'll let you know when it gets big

 

[purplegorilla]

Dylan, if it is a purple monster or anything similar to it. It would take 3-4 yrs before I see anything worth while. :sad:

 

[kf2008]

Just brand it and sell it for 100x what you paid. :thumbs:

It is nice, and I will gladly buy it from you before the branding should you decide to part with it.

purpleGORILLA;809757 wrote: Bought couple of corals online. One was suppose to be purple monster. To this day I still don't know which one out of the bunch I got from the seller. I emailed him and he has no clue. :roll: Anyways, this frag is starting to color back up but still have a brownish color with the base encrusting in purple.

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