Mr. Pacman?!

mrhasan · #1 12-01-2013, 01:56 AM

Well, it seems like the acro which I thought as "Red Dragon" is not. Its actually Mr. Pacman (red body with greenish tip and green polyp). Thanks to Stanley for the initial suggestion and Dave for pointing out that red dragons have white polyps. Here's a picture for reference. I don't know why my camera cannot catch the green better. The tips which is appearing white is either growth or green.

DSC_9404 by md. raied, on Flickr

LoJack · #2 12-01-2013, 02:01 AM

wow thats a beauty … where'd you get it?

mrhasan · #3 12-01-2013, 02:29 AM

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Originally Posted by LoJack

wow thats a beauty … where'd you get it?

From Concept as "red dragon"

intarsiabox · #4 12-01-2013, 02:31 AM

I think the green tips look better than white, good score!

mrhasan · #5 12-01-2013, 02:34 AM

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Originally Posted by intarsiabox

I think the green tips look better than white, good score!

Yah. Hence red dragon costs around $50 and mr.pacman goes for more than $100 a frag. And net has very little info on this too; probably not a lot in the market.

BuschWacker · #6 12-01-2013, 04:02 AM

Can I have that branch that broke off?

ReefHero · #7 12-01-2013, 08:20 PM

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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mrhasan · #8 12-01-2013, 08:23 PM

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Originally Posted by ReefHero

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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Thanks

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.

ReefHero · #9 12-01-2013, 08:23 PM

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Originally Posted by kien

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:

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

Blue Dragon:

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 :-)

I agree.....
Your blue and teal dragon look sweet!!
You still have the blue? I see you lost the teal one.

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ReefHero · #10 12-01-2013, 08:40 PM

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Originally Posted by mrhasan

Thanks

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.

Sorry, I went back and edited that post because I seen that they were kiens. Good luck with mr. Pacman!

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