New and question about my duncan

[Saltwater2370]

Hi, I am new to this forum. Here is some pictures of my Duncan as he is abnormally large in the tentacles any ideas why he looks so different from all the regular looking Duncan’s? He lives high up by the light in the biocube tank and next to a built in sump filter so food passes him 3 times a day as I feed my seahorses. I feed them brine shrimp and mysis shrimp. My corals also get fed Phyto feast 1-2 times a week as I have soft corals and other corals.

 

[Anemone_Fanatic]

Welcome to R2R! Looks like it might be under too much light. Move it down the rock a bit, and it should get better.

 

[Projects with Sam]

ditto - not enough experience to be useful to you. sorry!

 

[Tuan’s Reef]

Hello and welcome to Reef2Reef!

 

[Jimbhoy13]

Welcome to R2R. Lots of knowledgeable and helpful people here who will support and advise you when needed. I would love to keep seahorses. How difficult is it.

 

[ShepherdReefer]

Hello and welcome to the channel

 

[Reefer Matt]

 

[shakacuz]

welcome aboard the r2r board! as suggested, try moving it a bit lower. little at a time to see if it adjusts to lower lighting

 

[kevgib67]

Glad your here! Ya the polyps look shorter and plumper than mine. I agree with anemone fanatic, it’s probably under to much light. Lower it and it should extend more.

 

[Zach B]

Welcome Good advice above! Best of luck

 

[Uncle99]

Welcome to R2R!

Not sure which you call “regular” ones, they come in many forms and colour Morphs.

All looks well to me, I see some green so maybe elevated phosphate

 

[tharbin]

Welcome to R2R!

 

[CoralB]

Welcome !!!

 

[exnisstech]

How is the flow in that area? I have 2, one on the bottom and 1 about 4 inches up in a 24 inch deep tank. . Lighting is about 70 - 100 par and flow is enough that they go back and forth. Mine seem to like enough flow to keep them moving. Like Uncle99 stated they do come in a lot of different variations.

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[reaper93]

Welcome!

 

[powers2001]

Hello and welcome to R2R, @Saltwater2370 . Glad you joined us!! Good luck with your Duncan!!

 

[Saltwater2370]

Welcome to R2R! Looks like it might be under too much light. Move it down the rock a bit, and it should get better.

Thanks for the advice!

 

[Jeffcb]

Welcome to Reef2Reef!!

 

[Saltwater2370]

Welcome to R2R. Lots of knowledgeable and helpful people here who will support and advise you when needed. I would love to keep seahorses. How difficult is it.

It is not difficult at all as it may seem. They like the same things that your corals do so if you have happy corals and I keep the salinity the same everything will be fine. I feed them once before I go to work, once when I get home and once late at night before bed. They are very personable and I get so much enjoyment watching them. When they see me come home I usually have one of them dancing around waiting for food, it’s so amazing that they recognize you. My salinity is always at 1.023 and I have mostly soft corals. I have them in a 32 biocube and my light is on all day so they can see their food well. I have a ramp up and ramp down and blues on before bed then off till morning mimicking sun up and sundown.

 

[Saltwater2370]

It is not difficult at all as it may seem. They like the same things that your corals do so if you have happy corals and I keep the salinity the same everything will be fine. I feed them once before I go to work, once when I get home and once late at night before bed. They are very personable and I get so much enjoyment watching them. When they see me come home I usually have one of them dancing around waiting for food, it’s so amazing that they recognize you. My salinity is always at 1.023 and I have mostly soft corals. I have them in a 32 biocube and my light is on all day so they can see their food well. I have a ramp up and ramp down and blues on before bed then off till morning mimicking sun up and sundown.