I stand corrected. could be a tenella from indonesia not the micronesian or png. If you see the same coral from all 3 different areas they look way different. some corals share many characteristics but may have one or more distinguishing characteristic that separates their classification and vice versa which makes it so difficult to id.
Red Dragon Growth
- Thread starter ChrisOzment
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BuckeyeTodd
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I'm not up on the scientific names of acros, but isn't the red dragon an early release of the bali deepwaters?
MammothReefer
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No, red dragon has been around for years in Canada ('05) just got popular here in the states the past year or so.
http://www.aquariumpros.ca/forums/showthread.php?t=13861&page=2
so i think i have finally pinpointed the same exact species for the red dragon now. lol if you care, here's the link. make sure to compare the rd with the indonesian versions.http://coral.aims.gov.au/speciesPages/species_metadata/0446/image#
MammothReefer
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Definitely not tenella. I have both in my tank, and mine is from Bali which looks just like the ones from Micronesia.
edit:defiantly may be a bit strong. I will amend and say I am highly skeptical.
edit:defiantly may be a bit strong. I will amend and say I am highly skeptical.
I don't want to hijack the thread by showing you why i think this red dragon is a indonesian tenella with key photos but I will be creating a new thread later showing mine (different colored) and explaining why I believe it is so unless chris doesn't mind. do you have all of 250g's colony pics saved on your computer like I do? lol
MammothReefer
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No I don't have any of chris's pics. I have red dragon in my tank, and I have a Tenella in my tank. They are very different side by side imop, but I'll join you in the other thread.
MammothReefer
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Here is my tenalla, I'll take some pics of it in my tank, but you can see the growth is very different.
njreefermadness
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With all the growth I am seeing in this thread, I am surprised that there are still such insane prices for the Red Dragon.
Herb
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MammothReefer
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I see where you are coming from, but this is another one of those "veron" things that I'm not sure I agree with (like spathula and millis) Seems to me we have 2 different corals with the same id. Tenella seems like the 2 different tenella ID are very different. Notice how all the living pictures skeletal/corallite structure is VERY different from all the DEAD pictures skeletal/corallite structure.. Gotta wonder if they got things mixed up every once in a while.
MammothReefer
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here is a local reefer buddies red dragon (I took the picture). Great coloration on his.....mine not so much. I dont know what to do with this coral, does it like high-med-low light and flow?
I've got mine in medium / high light - medium / low flow. I get that colour but slow growth still for me.
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