Aussie Duncans

[RacingTiger03]

I didn't see too much info on here about them, so I thought I would share a quick photo of the one I got recently. A LFS here has a large colony, and was selling some heads from it recently. These should be fairly hardy being tank raised for some time now. Mine has been open from the moment I picked it up! Even with changing tanks it never closed down on me. Heavy eater too lol. The more flow the more tentacle extension it seems to give as well. Anyhow, here it is. Only one full size head and 4 babies (3 pictured). They are in a 29 gallon under 4 T5HO 39 watt and 1 T5HO 22? watt

Does anyone here have any info on fragging them for later? I heard some bad things about using just bone cutters, but may ask the LFS what they used.

 

[nayrgaijin]

I used a dremel with the diamond wheel, they are easy to frag just go a-bit down the branch and go to town :)

 

[650-IS350]

Yup dremel. even if you can some in half by accident, they'll grow back. Mines don't branch out. These are the yellow/lavender with green. Pic doesn't show real colors..

 

[mike_dani]

from what I understand the more you feed them the less chance of the branching out. I have both a target fed large ball of around 60 heads

and if you dont feed and let be photo/filter they might branch like these (these are wild caught)

I feed my Duncans lightly once every other week

 

[Dylan]

These are weeds. I fed mine every other day about 2-3 mysis a head and 5 heads became 12 in about 2 weeks.

 

[RacingTiger03]

interesting about the feeding determining branch/not branch. Nemo, do yours branch out or just a collection of close heads?

The mother colony mine came from was spot-fed twice/week and it was branched out nicely *shrug*
As for feeding on these, is it anything like a brain coral where feeding one head the energy goes to all heads?

 

[mike_dani]

These are weeds. I fed mine every other day about 2-3 mysis a head and 5 heads became 12 in about 2 weeks.

This post is worth nothing w/o pictures:bigsmile: