Duncans.....

ahayes13 · Jul 29, 2008

i purchased some duncans today from the lfs. i was wondering about how long til they open? they have been closed since i bought them a few hours ago.
also what should i feed them. i was going to feed them 3x a week with the other corals.

oceanparadise1 · Jul 29, 2008

just target feed them small frozen i use rotifers or cyco, also it might be a day 2 days who knows, ive had corals take a week to open in a new enviorment before

paintballer768 · Jul 29, 2008

Had mine for a week. Doubled in size.

ahayes13 · Jul 29, 2008

oh thats good to know. it is very pretty!

coral88 · Jul 29, 2008

If you want them to grow feed them dime sized pieces of raw shrimp from the grocery store.

coral88 · Jul 29, 2008

salt newbie01 · Jul 29, 2008

I think they would benefit more from meaty foods such as frozen mysis up to small pieces of raw shrimp. I like feeding mysis because I think it is easier for the corals to digest smaller pieces rather than one large hunk of food. great coral - very cool looking and when feed they grow like a weed!!!

Good luck

GMaquarium · Jul 29, 2008

I agree. Its a simple coral to keep, grows fast and always looks nice. I feed mine my mix formula that I use on all corals. I feed them daily

oceanparadise1 · Jul 29, 2008

Yea if u ask any one who has one, they will tell it they grow realllly fast with being fed

coral88 · Jul 29, 2008

Lets see yours oceanparadise1

oceanparadise1 · Jul 29, 2008

lights are off now :) hows about the am, its not to big yet i just picked up one head from a buddy of mine, but ill get some pics in the am for ya

Nate82 · Jul 29, 2008

ha he'd have to get one for that to work

oceanparadise1 · Jul 29, 2008

i got one yesterday ****** lol

Nate82 · Jul 29, 2008

oh when was that?

Nate82 · Jul 29, 2008

ha nice man love mine

oceanparadise1 · Jul 29, 2008

my buddy tony gave me a one head, normal color duncan cause i helped him out wiht some stuff its small but im hoping i can get it big we will see

paintballer768 · Jul 29, 2008

Yea, relatively easy corals to keep. Im spotfeeding mine once daily so I can get some good growth on em as fast as possible. Its a small head so I want it to get bigger and make sure itll live.

Ive heard theyll adapt to most lights too. Deepwater corals, or at least deeper than normal, so they can be adapted to high wattage PC, up to metal halides.