Rhizotrochus Typus

plaz · Dec 27, 2006

Anybody know if these are hardy and if they reproduce/can be propagated?
More curious than anything - prices are way too high for me now!

ficklefins · Dec 27, 2006

This is the only picture I could find of it. Is this what you are talking about?

Azurel · Dec 27, 2006

Yea that's it....Those are HOT.....I would like toget one but little to steep for my blood...

JGoslee · Dec 27, 2006

That is pretty awesome looking. Is that an anenome?

plaz · Dec 27, 2006

That is it - I can't find out much about them though. Don't know if they reproduce, etc.

reefboy · Dec 27, 2006

there another dendro/duncan type coral but i think a little more solitary type polyp which grows very slow.My gess why there very rare and very expensive none are being captive grown and are probly only coming in at very low numbers

jessiesgrrl · Dec 28, 2006

roesmarineworld had those as well when I ordered this week. I didn't pick one up because I just don't know enough about them...

Laurie

reefboy · Dec 28, 2006

yea checked them out not bad deals but i think to get one like ficklefin posted you'd have to give your next child up to get it lol, but may have to get one.

dieselab · Jan 18, 2007

fishes2889 · Jan 18, 2007

Hey neyugn0w01 ,
:welcome:

Any info on your tank?

Steve

fishes2889 · Jan 18, 2007

silverside by the looks of it.....

organism · Jan 18, 2007

they grow extremely, extremely slowly, I had one for a year that finally started to pop a baby off one side, and the baby took another 6 months to even get to a noticable size, definitely not a coral to pick up for propagation, but very nice either way though

dieselab · Jan 18, 2007

Yes that is a silverside that the rhyzo is eating. I pick it up about 4 months ago. Atlantis Aquarium and another seller on Ebay was selling one that looks bleached. It would be nice to get a picture of your organism with the baby polyp on the side. I have always wonder how they grow.

jendub · Jan 19, 2007

mmm....rhizos

Here is my pink rhizo. I agree with organism on slow growing, not for propagation.

These are "runners", trying to attach to whatever is close by.

I do have to say these creatures are my favorite. They are super cool to watch and feed.

Here is a little info on them; family- Flabellidae. Flabellids are exclusively solitary in growth form -- never forming colonies -- but certain genera reproduce asexually by transverse division and budding from the thecal edge. They are exclusively azooxanthellate.(Cairns, 1989b)