Dendro coral care.

[monkeyCmonkeyDo]

Usually they are sold as single heads or two. No more.
It's rare and uncommon to get an actual colony of dendros.

To say my way of IDing it is an oversimplification is rude. I'm sorry I've seen more coral than you have in your life. I've read your posts and questions on here.
You can research something all you want and read about it in a book but nothing compares to real life exp. Book smarts over street smarts ect.
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[LovinlifeinGuam]

Usually they are sold as single heads or two. No more.
It's rare and uncommon to get an actual colony of dendros.

To say my way of IDing it is an oversimplification is rude. I'm sorry I've seen more coral than you have in your life. I've read your posts and questions on here.
You can research something all you want and read about it in a book but nothing compares to real life exp. Book smarts over street smarts ect.
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I truly had no intentions of being rude, sorry if that's how it came off. And you don't need to apologize to me for seeing more coral (I know you're being sarcastic and trying to be rude since you think I intended to be rude to you). I'm sure visually seeing coral or anything with you eyes for that matter would make anyone quite the expert!

 

[monkeyCmonkeyDo]

And now I'm not sorry. You've joined the ignore ppl. Tk tk. Deleted.
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[LovinlifeinGuam]

And now I'm not sorry. You've joined the ignore ppl. Tk tk. Deleted.
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How old are you! HahahHa

 

[LovinlifeinGuam]

Now that he's ignoring me this post is for others because I just want to see if they agree or not. I could be completely wrong but it seems like with something such as coral in particular where there are so many variations even among species visual inspection alone would not be a very accurate way to ID...I would actually say that reading a book written by experts in the field detailing skeletal structure and documented morphs/variations would be much more educational and help ID more accurately. In this case book smarts over street smarts tbh.

 

[oceanleaf]

Now that he's ignoring me this post is for others because I just want to see if they agree or not. I could be completely wrong but it seems like with something such as coral in particular where there are so many variations even among species visual inspection alone would not be a very accurate way to ID...I would actually say that reading a book written by experts in the field detailing skeletal structure and documented morphs/variations would be much more educational and help ID more accurately. In this case book smarts over street smarts tbh.

The commonly called "Fat Head Dendro" in this hobby is scientifically a Tubastrea species (Tubastrea megacorallitaga) [See this article and this original research].

A true Dendrophyllia (genus not family Dendrophylliidae) is quite rare in the hobby (sometimes called branching dendro), and they often form branching skeletons similar to the one the OP got [See some sample pictures from here and here]. However, there are also a few more genus that look very similar and are sometimes available in the hobby as well (e.g. Cladopsammia), so it is almost impossible to tell the exact genus.

I think all NPS LPS have very similar care for all practical purposes of this hobby.

 

[LovinlifeinGuam]

The commonly called "Fat Head Dendro" in this hobby is scientifically a Tubastrea species (Tubastrea megacorallitaga) [See this article and this original research].

A true Dendrophyllia (genus not family Dendrophylliidae) is quite rare in the hobby (sometimes called branching dendro), and they often form branching skeletons similar to the one the OP got [See some sample pictures from here and here]. However, there are also a few more genus that look very similar and are sometimes available in the hobby as well (e.g. Cladopsammia), so it is almost impossible to tell the exact genus.

I think all NPS LPS have very similar care for all practical purposes of this hobby.

I agree

 

[LovinlifeinGuam]

Ty oceanleaf! Lol
Sun corals come in orange yellow and black.
You guys want a kool coral get a flabellum coral formally called a rhizo. They are illegal but if u call it a flabellum your good. Lol.
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They may be cool but if they're illegal you shouldn't be promoting their collection and then giving ways to bypass the legal process. It's against R2R terms and conditions and you yourself acknowledged it is illegal. @revhtree @Jay Hemdal I'll leave it up to the moderators

 

[sheeb]

Update- doing a lot better now it looks like.

 

[LovinlifeinGuam]

Update- doing a lot better now it looks like.

Looks good! Are you feeding each head?

 

[likemike99]

I hjave had many dendro's in my ytears. I love them. congrats on getting such a big specimen/ colony. most are only one or 2 heads. anyway... feed your fish, turn off your pumps then put some food (i use fauna marin LPS pellets) on the heads at the mouth. it will take like a week (I feed them 3x a week- 1 pellet) for the heads to be "trained to be open in the daytime.