AFAIK there are only two types that I've seen here in the US, the ORA one and the one with the defined green center. I have both and they definitely look different. But the non-ORA (bought from joetbs) is really hardy - I bought 2 heads and one head cracked in shipment and the head died. Within a month or so I saw a head coming out - and now it looks like there was never a break. I think I've had mine for a couple months and I have about 10-12 heads already. The single head of the ORA I got has about 7 or 8 baby heads forming right underneath the tentacles.

I love them, they are a really cool coral. I hope mine tables out like the huge ORA colony.

Which varient did Serdar have?

I never did see the ones Serdar had.

BTW, I also bought some encrusting Balano from [url]www.thecaptivereef.com[/url] and its beautiful. I only got 3 small heads and it just sprouted some more. Its SOOO orange. He has a great variety of dendros/balanos.

Mike at the Captive reef and Lam have set me up well with the Dendros and the Balano and I even got my very own Rhyzo from Mike :)... Now I am looking for a Duncan... ???

Serdar sold a couple of them, no one else got one?

I didnt make it when Serdar had them I totally missed um :( Do you have any left Jen?

[QUOTE][i]<a href=showthread.php?s=&postid=8594290#post8594290 target=_blank>Originally posted</a> by isjg [/i]
[B]Duncans are cheap as chips here, most people have them and frags are common. Basically you just snap off a branch. If you like you can first cut around the membrane that encrusts the branch to stop it tearing. This is the greatest problem with Duncans IME. Once the membrane starts to recede from tears, or encroaching stinging corals or even hair algae (I have one affected by this now) then once the recession hits the head it often kills it. If you can stop the recession it will recover, they're fast growers esp if you feed often. [/B][/QUOTE]

Yes but as was pointed out by other you pay $100 bucks for a cleaner shrimp over there I pay about $14 point is what expensive and rare one place is common and cheap in another

Jen
Yep that is where mine came from P.Business.I'm ready to frag mine now.I was just about to cut mine,but held,off wasn't to sure on how.Wondering the best way,till I saw your site.Thanks for the Info you posted;) GOOD STUFF :lol:

I also will have some frag very soon,if Jen runs out.
Curt

Hi, can someone tell me what I have?
[IMG]http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v413/jerrygarciamd/DSC_00962.jpg[/IMG]
Thanks

Sun coral? Tubastrea I think... It stays open at night right? But not much during the day

that pic was taken this morning, after feeding. So, it opens up the whole day but with short periods of retractions of each individual polyp. It is also open at night.

So, sun coral it is.
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Actually, If its open during the day could be dendros... that picture looks much better.... Looks almost like a dendro garden there... The Tubastrea/ suncorals are usually closed during the day... open mostly at night and are more colonial than those... my new bet from that pic is its dendros.. sorry the pic mislead me :) Dendros are better

Thank you Joetbs!!
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are duncans photosynthetic? someone on page 1 or 2 said they are, I thought they had to be fed because they lack zooxanthellae?
Chris

Whisperer, I believe yours is a sun coral. I see that form all the time at the LFS.

reefkoi, they are photosynthetic, but if you want them to grow fast they need to be fed.

Whisperer have one of the dendro speciments, notice clear/spotted tentacles on pic 1

So, what is it really. Do sun corals branch? I thought they have colonial polyps and do not branch and usually for a ball-like base. I dunno anymore. :crazy1:

I'm sticking with sun coral. Here's some pics of branching types.
[url]http://www.wetwebmedia.com/dendrophylliidae.htm[/url]

I wish they were dendrophyllias though, as I can get dozens of colonies like yours for 15 bucks.

on my opinion this can not be common sun coral all sun corals i have seen comes in colony with polyps connected in one encrusting skeleton , also i never seen a sun coral tentacles clear
also from the conversation with one LFS owner ,, before dendros got really popular they wore coming in sometimes like a sun coral"
mike at thecaptivereef have a pic with the polyps looking really close
[url]http://thecaptivereef.samsbiz.com/page/15u96/Dendrophyliidae.html[/url]

Yea I got my arbusuela from Mike.

I have a few colonies of the branching sun coral at my LFS and they only open at night, same size as the regular sun corals.
I'm pretty sure they're sun corals as the link I posted above says, but I would be glad to be wrong in this case.

He says that they are open all day long though... But here is a pic of one of my old Sun corals and it looks exactaly the same.... Coloring even... My dendros look different...

My sun coral
[IMG]http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v207/doctor64776/DSC01482-1.jpg[/IMG]

I can bring home a piece of the branching sun corals from my LFS tomorrow and I'll take a pic of it to compare.

Sounds fun. Here's a couple more pics of my Sun coral.

[IMG]http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v413/jerrygarciamd/DSC_0105.jpg[/IMG]
and another,
[IMG]http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v413/jerrygarciamd/DSC_00092.jpg[/IMG]
Let's see yours. :D