Acro ID

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  1. ScottsTanks

    ScottsTanks Flamingo Tongue

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    My Camera is very bad at capturing colors accurately (that's what I get for owning a 3 year old $50 point-and-shot) so I don't know if the picture will be helpful. The base is yellow and the polyps are bright pink. The new growth starts as a bluish-green and then turns yellow. My first thought was Strawberry Shortcake but I'd like some more opinions.
     

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  3. ingtar_shinowa

    ingtar_shinowa Giant Squid

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    id say pink lemonade millie.
     
  4. FaceOfDeceit

    FaceOfDeceit Hockey Beard

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    It looks like a Millepora to me...however, the famed 'Pink Lemonade' is not a millepora, and neither is the Strawberry Shortcake for that matter. From your description, it could be a Sunrise or Sunset Millepora with morphed polyps. You will see a change in it's coloring as it grows and fully acclimates to your lighting. It looks happy though! ;D
     
  5. ingtar_shinowa

    ingtar_shinowa Giant Squid

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    FaceOfDeceit Hockey Beard

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    Yeah...the famous Pink Lemonade (Tyree LE) is a A. nasuta. I can call anything I want to 'pink lemonade'...as can the OP. The "Pink Lemonade Milli" is not a 'sought after' piece, such as the Rouge Mille, or say Red Planet, Strawberry Shortcake, etc.
     
  7. ingtar_shinowa

    ingtar_shinowa Giant Squid

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    Ive had both the coloration is almost identical hence the name