Dendro or Sun Coral

[reefrunner]

I know there is a difference in Sun Coral and Dendro....

This picture was just taken and need to be sure the type before I post for sale.....

Open and doing very well and its day time under 60W LED's
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[thanh386]

Sun.

 

[dawgface]

Yup

 

[reefrunner]

Thanks... This is going to be sold as a colony... Not going to frag....

 

[au alum]

I recently bought a small group of "dendros" from a sponsor and have been questioning whether or not they are actually dendros and not sun polyps.

Than and Dawgface how were you able to tell the species just by looking at the picture? What characteristic gave it away?

Thanks in advance,

Eric

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[thanh386]

Dendro bodies are relatively hard. They have a calcium shell. Sun coral have a fleshy exterior. The polyps extenstion on sun corals will have a luminances to them, while the dendro will have a translucent apparence . The polyp extensions on sun coral will be much much longer than the actual body as well.

Edit: My dendros colonies

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[au alum]

Thanks for the info Thanh, I think I know what i have but I may need to post pics here to confirm.

 

[thanh386]

One are fat heads(top) other are long stemmed ( bottom)

 

[au alum]

Here are a couple phone pics. The first one was taken 5 minutes after they were put in the tank, and the second one was taken early in the morning right after the lights were turned on.

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I bought them last weekend, and I really like them, I would like to know what they are though.

Thanks,

Eric

 

[thanh386]

Those are sun

 

[jef4y]

Dendros are also generally significantly larger in diameter than sun corals are. And ~5x the price.

 

[schwaggs]

JeF4y;795330 wrote: Dendros are also generally significantly larger in diameter than sun corals are. And ~5x the price.

Not necessarily on the size but true on the price! I have a branching dendro that has smaller polyps than a typical sun coral. I also have some dentros with larger polyps.

I agree with you guys, these are Sun corals.

au alum, love the color of that Sun coral!

 

[seth the wine guy]

600 heads of Dendro? Dang. That's stout.

 

[greggreenberg]

Pm me il take a few !!