Red Dragon ? id please

[rogerwilco357]

Is this Red Dragon? Is there any other way to post the pic from Flickr usually i use the photobucket so new to this setup..



<a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/rogerwilco357/6932443766/" title="My Red Dragon by ROGERWILCO357, on Flickr"><img src="http://farm6.staticflickr.com/5334/6932443766_e682194ee9_b.jpg" width="1024" height="768" alt="My Red Dragon"></a>

 

[slapshot]

It doesn't look lilt it to me. The dragon is much finer branches.

 

[rogerwilco357]

also while at it need this id

also while at it need this id

also got this one that needs id it has yellow body with blue to lavender tip more blue let me know any intel is appreciated.
<a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/rogerwilco357/6932443768/" title="Image 10 by ROGERWILCO357, on Flickr"><img src="http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7093/6932443768_7c0e5194d9_c.jpg" width="724" height="800" alt="Image 10"></a>

 

[rogerwilco357]

anyone?

 

[Frick]

"Red Dragons" real name is A. Carduus. Is was a maricultured acro imported from Bali. http://sdmas.com/corals/14.php

A. Divaricata on the second http://sdmas.com/corals/24.php

 

[rogerwilco357]

so is that a yes or no? on the id

 

[Frick]

Well the closest thing i can find is Carduus. So I guess if you want you can call it red dragon. Personally i hate fad names, i feel it is a good way to confuse and cheat unsuspected reefers. To me "names" are only good to distinguish lineage. And that gets messed up and changed most the time anyway.

 

[slapshot]

so is that a yes or no? on the id

Seems too thick to be the "red Dragon" but that could be dependent on the flow. Whatever it is it's cool!

 

[rogerwilco357]

thanks for the id I have never sold a coral , and collect them for their beauty usually I buy for the look and later id them and like you really don't care for the hype of the names given especially in the zoanthids seems everyone has a name that makes no sense but hey to each his own but when buying corals for more then 20 bucks one tends to want to make sure it is as advertised I still don't know what the yellow one is other than acropora but I love the color it puts out maybe i should put a crazy name to it and see what happens lol..either way I thank you for your intel and link have been reading and looking at the data base very nice thanks. This Dragon is rather large and love the main branches thick and flat then they taper off to the thin branch and wow they are a hardy strain stronger than they look even the small branches ..
Roger
Roger

 

[thuynhcl]

The red dragon don't have flat branch and shoot up thin branch

 

[rogerwilco357]

my thoughts exactly have never seen one this thin the branches are hard unlike reg.acro the color is right but the thick to ultra thin with white polyps is puzzling..

 

[slapshot]

I know Rodger, you should give me half of it and I'll try different lighting and flow and we can see if it grows differently. really it is spectacular. Your second one looks like a Strawberry Shortcake I just picked up except the polyps are reversed colored. As you say what is a name. Both of those are amazing.

 

[Frick]

As you say what is a name.

LINEAGE!!!! That is what is in a name. Everything else is a LIE! Let us try to find a real name for it (Red Dragon is not a real name.) Acropora Carduus for example is.

Sorry just my quick rant.

 

[slapshot]

LINEAGE!!!! That is what is in a name. Everything else is a LIE! Let us try to find a real name for it (Red Dragon is not a real name.) Acropora Carduus for example is.

Sorry just my quick rant.

I guess if you care about that stuff. For me, if I like it, and I can afford it and keep it alive, well that is what matters to me.

 

[Frick]

I guess if you care about that stuff. For me, if I like it, and I can afford it and keep it alive, well that is what matters to me.

I care opposed to being lied to. If i buy a high end frag that has a name that corresponds to a specific coral (ex. Leng Sy Cap, ORA red planet, Tyree Pink Lemonade acro) it better have come from that same exact colony. I can then get a good idea where to place it, it's flow requirements, and i know other reefers have had good experiences with it.

Show names are ridiculous, but it is even more ridiculous to tag a name on something that it is not just to give it false fame or value.

 

[MammothReefer]

Red Dragonette!