Pics of dendros, balano, and duncan!

<a href=showthread.php?s=&postid=8594290#post8594290 target=_blank>Originally posted</a> by isjg
Duncans are cheap as chips here, most people have them and frags are common. Basically you just snap off a branch. If you like you can first cut around the membrane that encrusts the branch to stop it tearing. This is the greatest problem with Duncans IME. Once the membrane starts to recede from tears, or encroaching stinging corals or even hair algae (I have one affected by this now) then once the recession hits the head it often kills it. If you can stop the recession it will recover, they're fast growers esp if you feed often.
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Yes but as was pointed out by other you pay $100 bucks for a cleaner shrimp over there I pay about $14 point is what expensive and rare one place is common and cheap in another
 
Jen
Yep that is where mine came from P.Business.I'm ready to frag mine now.I was just about to cut mine,but held,off wasn't to sure on how.Wondering the best way,till I saw your site.Thanks for the Info you posted;) GOOD STUFF :lol:
 
Hi, can someone tell me what I have?
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Thanks
 
that pic was taken this morning, after feeding. So, it opens up the whole day but with short periods of retractions of each individual polyp. It is also open at night.
 
Actually, If its open during the day could be dendros... that picture looks much better.... Looks almost like a dendro garden there... The Tubastrea/ suncorals are usually closed during the day... open mostly at night and are more colonial than those... my new bet from that pic is its dendros.. sorry the pic mislead me :) Dendros are better
 
are duncans photosynthetic? someone on page 1 or 2 said they are, I thought they had to be fed because they lack zooxanthellae?
Chris
 
Whisperer, I believe yours is a sun coral. I see that form all the time at the LFS.

reefkoi, they are photosynthetic, but if you want them to grow fast they need to be fed.
 
So, what is it really. Do sun corals branch? I thought they have colonial polyps and do not branch and usually for a ball-like base. I dunno anymore. :crazy1:
 
on my opinion this can not be common sun coral all sun corals i have seen comes in colony with polyps connected in one encrusting skeleton , also i never seen a sun coral tentacles clear
also from the conversation with one LFS owner ,, before dendros got really popular they wore coming in sometimes like a sun coral"
mike at thecaptivereef have a pic with the polyps looking really close
http://thecaptivereef.samsbiz.com/page/15u96/Dendrophyliidae.html
 
Yea I got my arbusuela from Mike.

I have a few colonies of the branching sun coral at my LFS and they only open at night, same size as the regular sun corals.
I'm pretty sure they're sun corals as the link I posted above says, but I would be glad to be wrong in this case.
 
He says that they are open all day long though... But here is a pic of one of my old Sun corals and it looks exactaly the same.... Coloring even... My dendros look different...

My sun coral
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I can bring home a piece of the branching sun corals from my LFS tomorrow and I'll take a pic of it to compare.
 
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