Pink-orange branching sun coral ID?

[dendro982]

Can somebody share the knowledge what species could be warm-pink branching sun coral?
I was tend to think, that it is Dendrophillia gracilis, but seems that mine is denser branched, than D. gracilis on some photos.

Does it have different requirements from all other sun corals and their cousins?

Cladopsammia gracilis seems to be different by low bush shape or growth and shorter, cold pink polyps.

Any links in support will be appreciated.

 

[Trichome]

do you have a picture of the warm-pink branching sun coral?

 

[dendro982]

Tentacles are yellow, as for most of them:

It is very similar in shape to yellow branching sun coral, also yellow tentacles:

The warm pink branching sun coral above is closer to Dendrophyllia, than for (what my best guess is) Clasopsammia gracilis, colder pink shape, low growing colony:

which has very different shape of polyps too:

also yellow tentacles.

Here they are both on the same photo:

If you know what it is, can you add any references for this information? I'm trying to locate key ID features for Dendrophyllidae with not much success.

 

[Western_reefer]

Are all those sun corals yours? If so, SWEET collection!!

 

[Trichome]

I am sorry i can't help you on the ID of that type of sun coral. That is the first i have seen of that type. Is there any kind of up to date coral ID bible out there or are we left to fend for ourselves? I know Google can be a great resource but what happens when that does not help? I thought the internet was all knowing........

 

[dendro982]

Western_reefer: Thanks! They are mine, but I stuck with filtration and feeding, and if will not find the easier and inexpensive way to keep them, will downsize to couple of small frags of each and target feed them by tweezers . Already started fragging.

Trichome: It's a pity. Unfortunately, I don't even have ideas how to narrow search for dendrophyllia (looks alike), descriptive search didn't help.