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Old 03/24/2005, 03:17 PM
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you can see what Jen's dendros do at night a few posts back
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Old 03/24/2005, 03:19 PM
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does any one know a resonable price for theese things We have some at my store that are going for 300 each. they are yellow orange red and pink all of them have all of the colors.
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Old 03/24/2005, 03:23 PM
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kjm-I think that depends on the number of polps on the piece
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Old 03/24/2005, 08:28 PM
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there is about 6-8 on each
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Old 03/25/2005, 01:42 AM
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adult or baby? for example, I would say jen's (a few pix back) have 2 adults and four babies
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Old 03/26/2005, 01:27 AM
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it is about 1/2 and 1/2
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Old 03/26/2005, 08:36 AM
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That's the right price, I have never seen them for less than $100 per adult polyp.
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Old 03/27/2005, 09:04 PM
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Tong's out here (a lfs) just sold two colonies for $1200! Wow, mabe 10 polyps total at most, the colonies they had were closer to 4 polyps
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Old 03/27/2005, 10:28 PM
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And the next fad begins
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Old 03/28/2005, 07:20 PM
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I told you guys that is not rare. They are going to be coming in alot more now that everyone wants them....They sold a colony of @ least 10 polyps for 30 bucks at the Coral Oasis (LFS in Irvine).

http://archive.reefcentral.com/forum...hreadid=560540
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Old 03/28/2005, 07:31 PM
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Tony, are you sure they are not sun polyps?

I know the wholesaler who got the 30 colonies and thier wholesale price is more than $30 per polyp.

I'm thinking you are mistaking sun polyps for dendros homie
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Old 03/28/2005, 08:03 PM
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so only this one wholesaler is distributing them?
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Old 03/28/2005, 08:09 PM
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I do not think that only one wholesaler is distributing them....
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Old 03/28/2005, 08:13 PM
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I am not going to get involved in this but from what I know, yes, there is only one for now. I have only seen them in and around OC. In my books that would qualify as "rare".
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Old 03/28/2005, 08:19 PM
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I saw them in LFS at Milpitas (Aquatic-Gallery) as well....Maybe you will see them later in the website store...or ebay for selling them...
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Old 03/28/2005, 08:22 PM
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that would be great, I hope people get a chance to own these guys. You should feel lucky Tony and grateful.
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Old 03/29/2005, 12:52 AM
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there is only about 1 little reef that has theese on it and only one company carries them so they are extermly rare. at my stoor we have 4 of them. seeing them all open and feeding at once it was amazing.
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Old 03/29/2005, 05:09 PM
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i wanted to share my frag w/u guys, this shows a comparison shot between tubastrea faulkneri and dendrophyllia coccinea


here's a close-up of 1 polyp, notice the size of the tubastrea faulkneri (original "sun coral" right next to it) ... dendro is HUGE compared to sun corals
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Old 03/29/2005, 06:26 PM
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That's a perfect comparision shot, you can really see the differences and the similarities
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Old 03/29/2005, 07:23 PM
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I am confused, is Dendrophyllia the family name or the genus name?
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Old 03/29/2005, 07:33 PM
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hey Baja, here's the best info I could find:
http://www.nmfs.noaa.gov/habitat/eco...rborescent.pdf

dendrophyllidae is the family, dendrophillia and tubestrea are the two genus
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Old 03/29/2005, 08:01 PM
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heh.... we cannot even agree on the difference between denny's and sunny's how is anyone going to help me identify the difference between these guys??????????????????






can we get some of coral genius opinions...........
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Old 03/29/2005, 08:04 PM
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H2C-I couldn't even find a complete list of the species of dendros or a pic of each species, I have a trippy red center/yellow skirt dendro colony that is completely different
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Old 03/29/2005, 08:53 PM
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yeah from my non scientific observations............ ive noticed about three different species in which we can call "dendro's"
There are several different skeleton colors, shape, and growth patterns.......... but these may just be a factor of location/depth in which the are collected.......... none the less they look different......... one thing many people don't seem to grasp is the size of the polyps when fully extended......... they look something like a anemone on a stick......... The comparison pictures above are of a small colony of dendro's, one needs to see a large piece to truly understand the uniqueness of these corals.......... oh well I guess we will just have to wait until someone does some solid research and really classify these things.................
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Old 03/29/2005, 11:40 PM
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can we get some of coral genius opinions...........

I would say I'm far from a coral genius, but this picture looks to show the difference between the Dendrophyllia and Tubastrea.

The smaller polyp coral on the right looks like a branching Tubastrea.

Nice looking corals.
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