View Full Version : ID please. Dendro? with pics
laugh
06/21/2011, 05:28 PM
So I was at the LFS buying some frags and this little guy was growing under the frag rack stuck to the bottom glass. I asked what it was and he plucked it off the glass and said it's soft so it must be some kind of cauliflower coral. Anyways he said I could have it because now it is just tumbling around the tank. My first thought was Dendronephthya but all the dendro I've seen has lighter stalks and longer branches. I placed it on the bottom under a ledge and it never really opened. I moved it out so it would be easier to feed and it started opening up in the brighter light. Not like a dendro. So what do you think?
Sorry I only have a point and shoot so it's tough to get clear shots of anything that is not right against the glass.
http://i759.photobucket.com/albums/xx240/dad2togirls/P6210061.jpg
http://i759.photobucket.com/albums/xx240/dad2togirls/P6210060.jpg
laugh
06/21/2011, 07:55 PM
Anyone? I'm really hoping this is not Dendro.
Misled
06/21/2011, 08:15 PM
Can you move it closer to the glass and get a better pic????
Aaarrrggg
06/21/2011, 08:16 PM
I'm certainly no expert, but in my experience anything squidgy that's an awesome orange/pink/yellow color is usually non photosynthetic. It sucks because I love those colors! As I said, I'm no expert though -experts don't use the word "squidgy" for a start! :)
gmpolan
06/21/2011, 08:17 PM
Im thinking the same, prob a sponge of some sort...
laugh
06/21/2011, 08:25 PM
Can you move it closer to the glass and get a better pic????
I can try tommorow. But I doubt my camera or my skills will get any better by then:lol:
Misled
06/21/2011, 08:36 PM
Dude!!!!! :lol:
cside
06/21/2011, 08:39 PM
shine a flashlight in when you have your lights off to see if its nps. sounds noobish but my Tubastrea would only open at night when i first got it.
csmfish
06/22/2011, 06:05 AM
Well, pick it up and move it closer to the glass, lol.
Whats wrong with dendro's? I dont think thats a dendro. Just think of a sun coral, but, orange like that. That does not look like a dendro as I have one, i believe, or a really orange sun coral. Oh, and, mine is open 24/7, thats why i believe I have dendros.
laugh
06/22/2011, 09:09 AM
Dendro's are non-photosynthetic and notoriously difficult to keep feed well enough for them to thrive. I don't think this is Tubastrea(sun coral) as this guy is soft.
csmfish
06/22/2011, 12:06 PM
Dendro's are non-photosynthetic and notoriously difficult to keep feed well enough for them to thrive. I don't think this is Tubastrea(sun coral) as this guy is soft.
Oh, I dont know about that, or, i have a hybrid. The base is not orangy like a sun coral, mine is like a trumpet coral, frogspawn or some other stony coral like that at its base. The flower part is a dark orange, like orange drink (that cheap stuff you get in the one gallon jugs for a dollar). Now, with that said, I hardly feed the thing if at all and it has popped out two new babies. Mind you, it isnt growing a lot either, but, when I got it, it was on its death bed. Now, a year later, it is a family of 4.
laugh
06/22/2011, 02:34 PM
Ok best I could do closer to the glass. I'm thinking Scleronephthya just because the branches are so short. It opened for a bit today when the day lights came on.
http://i759.photobucket.com/albums/xx240/dad2togirls/P6220063.jpg
GerritM
06/22/2011, 03:48 PM
Alcyonium sp.?
Postal
06/22/2011, 08:13 PM
Oh, I dont know about that, or, i have a hybrid. The base is not orangy like a sun coral, mine is like a trumpet coral, frogspawn or some other stony coral like that at its base. The flower part is a dark orange, like orange drink (that cheap stuff you get in the one gallon jugs for a dollar). Now, with that said, I hardly feed the thing if at all and it has popped out two new babies. Mind you, it isnt growing a lot either, but, when I got it, it was on its death bed. Now, a year later, it is a family of 4.
You have a dendrophyllia. The OP is talking about dendronephthea. Very large difference in survival rates between the two.
ed102475
06/22/2011, 08:46 PM
Scleronephthya sp. ?
csmfish
06/23/2011, 11:37 AM
You have a dendrophyllia. The OP is talking about dendronephthea. Very large difference in survival rates between the two.
Well, yea, lol. "dendro" leaves a lot to the imagination if your not a coral biologist, lol. :lmao:
Whisperer
06/23/2011, 01:07 PM
Poci? :D
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