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  1. Todd_Sails

    Todd_Sails Giant Squid

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    Between a Duncan and a BTA?

    I know ones considered an LPS, and the other is an anenome.

    But, the both look very similar, both have a central mouth, and both eat food pieces put in their tentacles.

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  3. Corailline

    Corailline Super Moderator

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    It is a dry heat, yeah right !
    The Duncan is a stony coral.
     
  4. Todd_Sails

    Todd_Sails Giant Squid

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    As in LPS, Large polyp stony.

    What makes them morphlogically different?

    The Duncan and the anenome?
     
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    lillys Grandad Horrid Stonefish

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    I believe that the anenome has no skeleton....that would be one?
     
  6. SushiGirl

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    Correct. Plus they're 2 different species of animal.
     
  7. Va Reef

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    Almost all cnidarians have tentacles and a central mouth, the class anthazoa(all coral and nems are anthazoa) spends there whole life as polyps, where other classes, ctenophora, cubozoa, hydrozoa and one other i cant think of right now alternate between medusas and poylps.

    a couple more differences are:
    nems can move, duncans cant, nems are usually just one "polyp" where as when duncans split the head remains attached to the same skeleton.
     
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  9. Todd_Sails

    Todd_Sails Giant Squid

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    OK! Thanks! That, was the kind of answer I was looking for.
    (That was much easier than researching this, and I'm at work right now, and that was said concisely and better anyways)

    ** I'm now bowing down as I chant - "I'm not worthy!"
     
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    haha thanks 8) If you get a chance, its quite interesting to research.