What's your favorite coral?
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maidia
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I said my favorite in soft tank...I did not said it's soft coral...
maidia
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Corals are invertebrates.
That's what I thought too but I have no comment...
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Technically you are correct
Corals are invertebrates.
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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
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
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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.
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.
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vucious
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Damn, the Dendros is super sexy. What's involved with taking care of these bad boys? Lighting, water, tank size, feeding?
ultimatemj
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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
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!
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
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!
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