Originally Posted by kien (Post 863002)

That looks pretty sweet!

There are a couple of "Red Dragons" floating around, The Tyree Red Dragon typically goes for a bit more than $50 a frag. I think this is the original Red Dragon. Since then, mariculture has started to bring in a reddish Acropora Carduus which is the same species as Tyree's Red Dragon. Retailers have started to call this Redish Acropora Carduus a "Red Dragon", but is not necessarily the same as the Tyree Red Dragon. I believe Tyree and some other people call this Redish Acropora Carddus a "Pink Dragon Tails" to distinguish it from the Tyree Red Dragon.

I have all three of the above mentioned along with a Purple Dragon and a Blue Dragon (which there are a couple of different variants of as well), and to me the obvious difference between a Tyree Red Dragon and a mariculture Redish Acropora Carduus "Red Dragon"/Pink Dragon Tails is that the Tyree Red Dragon has a bit more blue in it with the white polyps.

Tyree Red Dragon:

http://farm6.staticflickr.com/5543/9...8214414c_o.jpg

Maricultured Acropora Carduus "Red Dragon" / Pink Dragon Tails: (But sold to me from a local retailer as simply a "Red Dragon"

http://farm9.staticflickr.com/8516/8...6133e341_o.jpg

Blue Dragon:

http://farm9.staticflickr.com/8379/8...888fc794_o.jpg

And the Pacman of course looks very similar but has the green tips. I believe they are just different colour morophs of the same or very close relative species. And of course placement of the coral and it's environment will affect its colour as well.

Isn't the name game fun :-)

Originally Posted by kien (Post 863005)

And here's a "Teal Dragon" that I used to have :lol:

http://farm9.staticflickr.com/8530/8...0b11cd23_o.jpg

Originally Posted by kien (Post 863002)

That looks pretty sweet!

There are a couple of "Red Dragons" floating around, The Tyree Red Dragon typically goes for a bit more than $50 a frag. I think this is the original Red Dragon. Since then, mariculture has started to bring in a reddish Acropora Carduus which is the same species as Tyree's Red Dragon. Retailers have started to call this Redish Acropora Carduus a "Red Dragon", but is not necessarily the same as the Tyree Red Dragon. I believe Tyree and some other people call this Redish Acropora Carddus a "Pink Dragon Tails" to distinguish it from the Tyree Red Dragon.

I have all three of the above mentioned along with a Purple Dragon and a Blue Dragon (which there are a couple of different variants of as well), and to me the obvious difference between a Tyree Red Dragon and a mariculture Redish Acropora Carduus "Red Dragon"/Pink Dragon Tails is that the Tyree Red Dragon has a bit more blue in it with the white polyps.

Tyree Red Dragon:

http://farm6.staticflickr.com/5543/9...8214414c_o.jpg

Maricultured Acropora Carduus "Red Dragon" / Pink Dragon Tails: (But sold to me from a local retailer as simply a "Red Dragon"

http://farm9.staticflickr.com/8516/8...6133e341_o.jpg

Blue Dragon:

http://farm9.staticflickr.com/8379/8...888fc794_o.jpg

And the Pacman of course looks very similar but has the green tips. I believe they are just different colour morophs of the same or very close relative species. And of course placement of the coral and it's environment will affect its colour as well.

Isn't the name game fun :-)

Originally Posted by ReefHero (Post 863022)

Nice score!! I have always liked the mr. Pacman style dragon acro......
The actual tyree lineage red dragon has always seemed to have thinner more delicate branches and often appears to have a blue hue or glow to the top part of the branches....usually no colour on the polyps and very minimal PE.
I picked up a mr. Pacman/ needle in haystack acro from FAL a couple years ago and always liked it until it went RTN.



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Originally Posted by mrhasan (Post 863026)

Thanks :D

The other dragons are Kien's. I only have the pacman. Well mine started RTNing within a day too but I was able to stop it using furan 2. Two dips in two days and now all the tissues are back.

Originally Posted by mrhasan (Post 863007)

You definitely need a pacman to your dragon collection. Interested to trade? :wink:

Originally Posted by kien (Post 863071)

I have one of those too :-)

Both my blue and my teal Dragon kicked the bucket during the Calgary floods this spring. I did pass on a backup frag to a buddy who is currently growing it out. It was a sweet piece, athough not totally uncommon.

I recently got a Purple Dragon which is kinda of a cross between the Blue Dragon and the Pink Dragon Tails. I guess you could say it looks like the Tyree/Reef Raft Red Dragon but more purple.