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Here's an Acropora millepora I got last month. I never seen any fish near it, but it tends to be rather closed up.

10 days ago, I posted a picture of a birdsnest with potential branches. Here it is today.

The blastos to the left are pretty, but my eye is on the Montipora on the right. It's green with blue polyps, and came from Sea World San Antonio.

A deepwater acro is settling in nicely.

I love my Lithophyllon. It's just different. http://melevsreef.biz/node/1416

I doubt these two Montipora will play nicely together, but it's fun to see for now.

This Montipora has nice bright green polyps against a brownish background. When I first placed it in the 400g, I put it in a dark nook for way too long. I retrieved it but there was quite a bit of damage to the leading edge and patches of the center looked white. Two weeks later in a better spot, it looks almost 100% back to normal.

I don't know what kind of Montipora this one is, but it's peachy to me.

This picture has several corals, but the main subject I meant to capture was the "Purple Haze" montipora on the right. To the left is Sunset Montipora and then there are a bunch of baby Fungia plates doing their thing like usual.

I still don't know what this coral is, and it hasn't really decided for itself either. It's an acropora, but it has encrusted more than grown branches, and hasn't settled in on a single coloration either. Maybe it will narrow its plan this year.

I'm really shocked at how good it has colored up. I had SERIOUS doubts against it originally. Thank goodness Drew made me buy it.

My acro from Sea World was in trouble, but it has begun to turn around for the better.

Originally I thought this was a Green Slimer (A. yongei) but it doesn't act like one. The tips are blue where new growth occurs, where normally it is more white with slimers.

This funny shaped acro is more than likely A. tenuis. It has been growing like a deepwater for some reason, but now that it has a permanent spot in the rockwork it seems to be happier.

Here's a shot of the Torch coral next to the greener Frogspawn coral.

This War Coral came from HighDef Corals a few years ago. It survived the big tank leak and was out of sight in the 215g for 18 months, hardly visible at all. Now it is in the front of my reef where it belongs.

While the sand in this picture is a tad misleading, I shot these zoas under a 20,000K ReefBrite TwinArc bulb, but it was at an angle. This zoas were under a different bulb already off for the night. Still, the color of the zoanthids are pretty true to the eye. Love my blues.