New Duncan

[jaymz]

I just moved and have been going to the LFS which is actually a vendor. the place is huge. I am looking in this nice reef set up and it had all kinds of everything. I see a long tenticle plate coral. i was looking for a price and i notice there is supposed to be a duncan in the tank. to make a long story short what i thought was a LTplate coral was a 14 head duncan. large full heads. It was a sweet deal at $499.99

 

[paintballer768]

HOLY COW! Pictures required!! I never knew everybody had duncans. They seem like a very easy coral to keep honestly, mines fully extending daily and eats whatever touches it.

 

[texasmetal]

Originally Posted by paintballer768
http:///forum/post/2702584
HOLY COW! Pictures required!! I never knew everybody had duncans. They seem like a very easy coral to keep honestly, mines fully extending daily and eats whatever touches it.
They make for a good investment. Never know when the Australian sources are going to dry up.

 

[reeflife1680]

I've got a colony w/ at least 30 heads on the bad boy ... been asked many times to frag but not interested in fragging. I will have to post a pic soon ... fragging it just makes it lose it's beauty IMO ...

 

[paintballer768]

Originally Posted by ReefLife1680
http:///forum/post/2703112
I've got a colony w/ at least 30 heads on the bad boy ... been asked many times to frag but not interested in fragging. I will have to post a pic soon ... fragging it just makes it lose it's beauty IMO ...

Fragging does take away some of the beauty, yet it will grow back given a few months. Once my duncan turns into 5-6 heads, Ill frag it in half in hopes of getting my money back, and then whatever else I decide to do with it will be a plus.
Thats my goal with my corals, get back what I paid by selling frags, then whatever else I make can be put back into the tank.

 

[flricordia]

not to hijack but concerning the growth on duncans. I got this one 1st of June and it has about doubled in size of heads and grown a new one. Is that slow, average or do they grow fast? Only thing I have besides rics and zoas so it doesn't really get attention like it probably needs and gets fed only once a weeks. Just doesn't do it for me like my rics.
before and now pics.

 

[paintballer768]

Id say those heads look like theyd doubled in size. Thats some crazy growth. Id say that looks great, whether it be normal or slow or whatever.

 

[texasmetal]

Everyone says they grow pretty fast. Mine haven't given me a lot of new heads over the past few months, but when I bought them the existing two heads were dime-sized. I have 2 new heads that are dime-sized now, and the original two are MUCH bigger.

 

[paintballer768]

Its been almost exactly a week.

 

[groupergenius]

Originally Posted by Flricordia
http:///forum/post/2703462
not to hijack but concerning the growth on duncans. I got this one 1st of June and it has about doubled in size of heads and grown a new one. Is that slow, average or do they grow fast? Only thing I have besides rics and zoas so it doesn't really get attention like it probably needs and gets fed only once a weeks. Just doesn't do it for me like my rics.
before and now pics.
Mike, the more you feed those the faster they will grow. My clarkii clown was hosting the colony and would feed it frozen krill.

 

[abe]

ORA duncans are awesome i have a colony that just exploded with growth.
low flow with medium light.
duncans are fast growers especially if you feed them. i have two large colonies, one is ORA, and one is just wild caught.
these are my beauties (please excuse the video camera pictures):

as you can see... ora duncan polyps are huge. one polyp is almost the size of my entire dendro colony

 

[flricordia]

Originally Posted by GrouperGenius
http:///forum/post/2704949
Mike, the more you feed those the faster they will grow. My clarkii clown was hosting the colony and would feed it frozen krill.
Now that would be awesome. I wonder if a Maroon would? Now wouldn't the Duncan stay partially closed when the clown would touch it or did it become used to it?

 

[flricordia]

Originally Posted by abe
http:///forum/post/2704962
ORA duncans are awesome i have a colony that just exploded with growth.
low flow with medium light.
duncans are fast growers especially if you feed them. i have two large colonies, one is ORA, and one is just wild caught.
these are my beauties (please excuse the video camera pictures):

as you can see... ora duncan polyps are huge. one polyp is almost the size of my entire dendro colony
Those are nice.

 

[groupergenius]

Originally Posted by Flricordia
http:///forum/post/2705606
Now that would be awesome. I wonder if a Maroon would? Now wouldn't the Duncan stay partially closed when the clown would touch it or did it become used to it?
The Duncans loved it. As I see it, duncans, like most other "softies and LPS" are developed anemones anyway. The Clarkii would rub the snot out of the Duncan and the Duncans seemed to love the attention.
As far as the Maroon, it depends on the clown. They have to choose what they want to host. Got me thinking about putting my Maroon in with the Duncans now though. My Clarkii is unfortunately no longer with me.

 

[abe]

Originally Posted by Flricordia
http:///forum/post/2705608
Those are nice.
thank you.
duncans are great coral. my wild caught colony hasnt been doing too hot. it was in high flow for a month because i had nowhere else to put it, and it hated it. I have to do some TLC on it right now, but it should be fine.

 

[steve24]

i had a thread about my duncans hosting my clown (ocellaris)once in awhile the clown would be a little rough and the duncan would close up some but other then that the coral didn`t really seem to care ...

 

[heart & sole]

heres mine picked it up for $25 about 3 months ago started with 3 heads now it has over 20
then

now

 

[keri]

Wow - these beautiful pics are making me REALLY want a duncan....

 

[paintballer768]

Its been a while since I updated mine, but theres now 3 little duncan heads on the base of mine. Now thats a fast growing coral!!! I give him about 5-6 mysis a day in a single serving and he has no problem gobbling it up. The original head I got keeps getting wider and wider as well

 

[rael]