What's your favorite coral?

vucious

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What is the coolest coral in your tank? Please post a picture and name (for noob like me who may not know what I'm looking at).
 
Sure teach a Noobie an ivertabrate is a soft coral.( Rose Bubble Tip Anemone is an invertebrate )
 
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Lol I know what you said. QUOTE=maidia;248074]I said my favorite in soft tank...I did not said it's soft coral...[/QUOTE]
 
I don't even know what you guys are debating about since there are no names posted with the pics =).
 
Just having fun.
First pick is a Rose Bubble Tip Anemone (RBTA) This color variation is coveted rainbow
Second pick is a Small Polyp Stony Coral (SPS ) Hard Coral
I don't even know what you guys are debating about since there are no names posted with the pics =).
 
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Keep them coming guys. I'm looking for ideas for the next coral to add to my 29g gallon. It has to be perfect since real estate is limited. I'm liking the RBTA but not sure I'm ready for an anemone yet.
 
ANEMONE AND CORALS - THE CNIDARIANS
We'll start by explaining that anemone, coral, and jellyfish are all related. We broke them up into two different sections because of their body types. They are all from the Phylum Cnidaria. Comb jellies are a side step away from jellyfish. They are in the Phylum Ctenophora. They look similar, but are different in some important ways.

Specifically, anemones are considered the cnidarians that look like flowers. They have a central body and dozens of tentacles waving in the water, waiting for prey to pass by. You can find them alone or in groups. If you ever go to tide pools, you will see them all over the rocks. You will find anemone wherever you find a lot of fish and healthy water.

Corals are different from anemone because they have a skeleton of sorts. Anemones are squishy and basically filled with water. Corals create a hard skeleton of calcium carbonate. You might see that skeleton for sale in stores. When you find living coral and look very closely, you will see thousands of living cells waving about in the water. We should probably mention, although obvious, that coral do not go anywhere. Once they settle down, that's it. You might find coral alone or thousands of them together forming entire reefs like the Great Barrier Reef near Australia.

Not technically, biologically. :nod:
 
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John, what you just cut and pasted is obviously 100% accurate and I never disagreed that corals and anemones are different. All I said is that they are both invertebrate animals, which is also 100% accurate. So, I bid you good day, sir.

P.S. I teach biology.
 
Lighting is a non-factor, as they are NPS (Non-photosynthetic corals), nor do I find them picky about water parameters.

Tanks size is also not an issue, the "heads" get to be a 2" around maximum.

That said, since they are NPS "you must feed them". I think folks overstate the required frequency and feed mine Fauna Marine LPS pellets once a week, occasionally twice a week. Without direct feeding they will starve~

Check out the article begining on page 38 of reefhobbyistmagazine-issue-28 on NPS. Note the big difference compared to Tubastrea
dendros will stay open during the day without any coaxing. At night, however, the polyps will expand even more fully. It is for this reason that they are more sought after and often more expensive than Tubastraea

Not only more expensive, hard to find! You'll see the tubastrea (often just called sun corals) around regularly, but the dendros seem to only pop up every so often and in limited quantity. I seem to recall hearing they were put on some kind of restricted import list ~10yrs ago, so they have to be "farmed" here to sell them. Not sure how accurate that is, but it tends to make sense of their lack of availability.

Good luck!

Damn, the Dendros is super sexy. What's involved with taking care of these bad boys? Lighting, water, tank size, feeding?
 
one of my all time favorite chalice.

3g mummy eyes that i got from mai on the right side

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