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[Reef Collective]

Hey everyone, Emily here!
We recently got in a few of one of my most favorite corals of all time, the Walking Dendro (Heteropsammia cochlea). These guys are extremely unique due to the fact that they are a solitary, photosynthetic coral with a single peanut worm living inside their skeleton. The worm comes out to eat and scoots the coral around on its back like a snail! Super interesting, and fun to watch. They end up somewhere else in your tank every morning so that is something to be cautious of, and should not be dipped as to not damage the worm. Also quite hard to find these days. They are for sale on our website for $90 each, you can also pick them up in store. Here are some pictures!
https://reefcollective.com/search?search=dendro


Here is what the hole where the worm lives looks like! So weird.. I have yet to see the worm actually come out but they are definitely in there, every morning they moved about an inch.


And of course, I had to take one home for myself! I have been trying to find these for a YEAR! So very exciting for me. Can you tell?





So, what do you think of Walking Dendros? Have you heard of them before?
What do you think is the most interesting coral? See if you can top this one

 

[Reefer Oz]

Amazing! True symbiotic relationships are not so common. Thanks for sharing this delightful duo!

I won’t even bother trying to compete,HA. But as a whole, I find LPS coral fascinating. The amount of fleshy tissue they can retract into those sharp skeletons is crazy!

 

[Reef Collective]

Amazing! True symbiotic relationships are not so common. Thanks for sharing this delightful duo!

I won’t even bother trying to compete,HA. But as a whole, I find LPS coral fascinating. The amount of fleshy tissue they can retract into those sharp skeletons is crazy!

For sure! Pectinia has to be one of the craziest. Ive cut myself on a pectinia skeleton before. Beats me how they hold flesh!

 

[Mandarin_Jake]

Pectinia is one of my favorite corals...it's crazy how puffy they can be one day, then so slim the next...I wish I could suck in like that

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[miltonkl]

There's a space invader in one of the display tanks at RC that I saw one time with its sweeper tentacles out and it instantly became my favorite coral so far. I already picked up one frag and I'm really, really fighting the urge to grab another frag that's in the forums for sale right now, lol. I don't think I've seen many non-space invader varieties of pectinia around but could easily see having a few in my tank.

 

[Reef Collective]

There's a space invader in one of the display tanks at RC that I saw one time with its sweeper tentacles out and it instantly became my favorite coral so far. I already picked up one frag and I'm really, really fighting the urge to grab another frag that's in the forums for sale right now, lol. I don't think I've seen many non-space invader varieties of pectinia around but could easily see having a few in my tank.

Yeah that one is big and mean! Really nice too though for sure.
We do have a duller green pectinia in another display tank thats probably for sale but its not much different than a space invader haha.

The thing with pectinia is they only ship as colonies and those colonies are often difficult to frag or not worth fragging - so the whole colony would have to be sold. And they are a bit expensive! But there are some really nice wild variations that we can certainly get ahold of if you wanted one.