Trying to ID Acropora Species

www.fragbox.ca

[@alexandremueller6236]

You guys should start an ID series! I would love that!!!

[@jadonduncan3212]

I love how Tia’s face lit up when March mentioned getting stoned😭🥲

[@fragboxcorals]

no drugs for Mr.March !

[@pkunk1]

I watched this on my tv via Apple TV and was amazing, maybe my favorite yet. You all have the BEST job love episodes like this makes me feel behind the scenes of the LFS…keep up the awesome vids!

[@EazyP_Z]

Sign me up for Coral School! I'm going to watch this over and over. Would love to see an Acro database. Never stop learning 👍

[@fragboxcorals]

we will slowly build it for you

[@KevinSmith-xt7gt]

3 minutes or 30 minutes I watch till the very end. Don’t want to miss anything 🙈… almost caught up and have watched every video start to finish 👍👍

[@fishpony1211]

I used to work in the fresh cut flower industry a while ago. We used paperwork called a “PHYTO” and i made it my mission to learn all the scientific names of every flower that came through my doors. Very interesting stuff. I try to do the same for corals now as well

[@ricktokaji200]

hands down one of your best videos to date loved it ! great way to spend a birthday :) happy birthday Tia !

[@fragboxcorals]

Thanks rick !

[@inflationstation1]

There is a booked called “Corals of the world” by Jen Veron that might help you out, it has a lot of detail (Photos and text description). It is photos of colonies in the wild and not the best if you’re trying to identify from colour’s you see in tank pieces but still an interesting book.

[@reefpassion6364]

Pretty cool seeing you are doing that job, seing you from Spain, I think that the acro from the minute 21:26 is a aculeus

[@dusk1947]

In disclosure, I suck at this part too. Which is why I think it's a great topic. For your "Stumped" pile: try finding a tool know as a dychotomous key. I'm sure they exist for coral. That would be the biology tool used to catalog and differentiate species. Sadly, I can't recommend any. All the dichotomous keys I've used are related to plants, not coral. But that is the tools specific to solving your pile of unknowns

[@underwateradventures98]

How the fuck are you not more popular in the reefing world. Personality, enthusiasm and knowledge for days. Either way you're killing it 💯🔊🔥

[@fragboxcorals]

We just started 6 months ago give us a little more time :D

[@ricardocarneiro7797]

I don't think there are many people in the world that could ID all those acros accurately 😂 I enjoyed the shots of the acro crabs! 🦀

[@spicyreef]

happy birthday Tia !

[@aaronmethvin]

Really loving these name videos.

[@fragboxcorals]

thanks!

[@jasony816]

Love the videos and from NY and would love to visit you guys one of these days, any idea how it would work if anyone from NY visits the store and buys some frags if it can be brought back to NY either by plane or car?

[@ggeraldlt]

Fantastic sidetrack of the day

[@fragboxcorals]

best to date

[@scottt9263]

March, Side track question here. At 23:06, what is on the wall there? Is that a display of rocks or what? Just curious.

[@fragboxcorals]

frag racks!

[@sunnygoold9449]

Coral school! yes - we really need to get like Charlie Veron to educate us ;)

[@Venomthegr8]

That guy at tidal gardens is the Bob Ross of Coral and well informed

[@fragboxcorals]

he really is

[@jordanwaldron94]

You should name the banded acro crab Waldo

[@ArachnoJoozt]

It would be so much easier if they wrote the name on the see-through labels. I assume the coral farmers know the species they are farming (?) Enjoying the eye-candy, and a nice side-track indeed! 👍

[@stevedang8554]

It's too bad I suck at keeping across I would pick up that Pikachu.

[@calisky7342]

Those acros are fire, howevr, I have no luck with those mariculture acroporas. Out of probably close to 20 frags I have purchased, maybe 3 survived. They were not cheap.

[@sunnygoold9449]

This was SO good... yeah I can get Saramentosa - not Plana - I would say some of those acros are mislabelled - the pikachu may be a latistella - I think the Indo one is and the Aussie is a Microlados - Bali Aquarium dot Net is really good as is corals of the world (the Factsheets section)- yeah Bali Aquarium has a great shot of the plana - my guess is the one on the left is granulosa and the one on the right loripes (loripes has one side smooth, 1 with radial coralites - granulosa doesn't seem to have radial coalites from corals of the world - wow I learned something today ;) that's cool how loripes has one side only with radials ;)

[@nanocube6689]

love the new lense!

[@fragboxcorals]

well worth the money

[@discusdu6458]

Hi gyus too manny nice Acropora awsome love them all

[@drdeeplyblue]

Great video as always ...btw..thats a melanurus wrasse 21:07

[@fragboxcorals]

close but not quite

[@hurricaneaquatics]

March, maybe you can clarify for me. I've always heard if you touch Acropora they won't grow at that location any longer. Any truth to that? I am sure if someone had nasty hands it would be the case, but just in general.

[@fragboxcorals]

100% not true

[@garvinchinnia2438]

Long videos are great.

[@Algaewarrior]

Do you ever get any other deep water acros like suharsonoi or lokani? I've seen carduus and Plana there.

[@fragboxcorals]

rarely but yes !

[@ron6238]

i thought Pikachu Acropora was A. Microclados....Melanarus wrasse 21:13?

[@AsThe3rdEye]

Looks like a male Melanarus wrass to me too.

[@johnhuggett7001]

What details are on those clear tags?? Tomorrow's sidetrack - ok??

[@aquaballs]

Lol you said marhaba habibi some one must of teaching you Arabic soukran March for everything you do for the hobby 😉

[@fragboxcorals]

I love languages man and speak a few :D

[@gordongalloway1049]

I study at “March University” daily for a dose of coral knowledge. Dreaming of a PhD in saltwater!!! Haha

[@robertopadillla8586]

Would I be able to travel to go to Canada buy a colony and bring it back to the US by plain not sure if I would be allowed to do that do you by any chance have the answer for that

[@fragboxcorals]

probably not :(

[@aniafish]

I really feel like we could be great friends ☺️

[@gunpowder97]

I too attent fragbox university😂🕺🏼

[@stevedang8554]

Hey where the homewrecker at?

[@fragboxcorals]

all dead

[@anthony7646]

What’s the dimensions of your Acro frag tank and gallons ? …thanks.

[@fragboxcorals]

6x3x12 inch tall

[@anthony7646]

@@fragboxcorals Cool, Thanks for sharing

[@dopeaquatics1437]

Lol coral school you guys are great

[@fragboxcorals]

applications next year

[@haymatr]

dont know name but its stunner

[@Jls_-en9ye]

number one

[@rudra7615]

This dude has one of those beards that hasn't grown in well but it's been months..

[@fragboxcorals]

Lol great observation 👍

[@rudra7615]

@@fragboxcorals we tend to notice things that we ourselves go through lol

[@Venomthegr8]

If you get stoned make sure it's LPS stoned

[@fragboxcorals]

LETS GOOOO

[@seangriffiths9163]

Dont shut up and just keeping talking and more content please hahaa you rambling is good as you sharing experience and knowledge thanks for your videos.

[@fragboxcorals]

THANK YOU SEAN

[@bettinaeicher9185]

Sorry cytherea for sure

[@imtylerpayne]

WRASSE is a melanarus

[@fragboxcorals]

close not but not quite

[@imtylerpayne]

@@fragboxcorals my bad he looks like one

[@bettinaeicher9185]

Its a cythera

[@Carpetslayer23]

I thought it was common practice for Canadians to smoke dope. I mean I've seen trailer parks boys lol.

[@carrierettinger]

6 line wrasse... they like sand beds and play peek a boo

[@ashraff7711]

3rd BTW love your vid

[@robertlangford7637]

dont do acros