Duncan colorization

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A while back i baught a rock with mushrooms on it. I soon noticed a white poly on it and now its about 6 heads. I have identified it as a duncan. My question is can it color up if i move it to an area of more light because i have kept the rock in an area that has little light, i heard that mushrooms do best in less light so that is why i kept it there? this is my first incounter with a coral of this type so i'm unexperienced with them.
 
Do you have a pic? Some manajo's look very similar to duncan's. If its a piece of LR imported from Australia, its a posibility though.
 
this is my only pic it shows some signs of green

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i was told its a duncan and did some comparison and have come to the same conclusion if there are other corals that look like this can you please give me their scientific name so i can research them.
 
Yea, looks like a duncan to me too. Nice! Yes if its in a lowly lit spot it would benefit with more light. I keep mine about 16" from my t5 setup fwiw, and they do well.
 
ive had sarcophytons and a acan once but it was in bad shape and didnt make it, i have also had some golfball corals to but i am unable to id and yer i would say duncan
 
but the question still is:
Do duncans change color based on light. do you think it might get more of a color if i put it in a brighter spot because it is in a shady spot for the mushrooms on the rock?

i know that if sps are not in adaquite light they lose color but i don't know if it the same with duncans
 
like all LPS (except sun polyps) you would benefit from moving it to better light. It should color up nicely for you. Nice hitchhiker.
 
There are 5-6 color morphs of the duncanosamia axifuga. and also the bigger one that ORA carries ( 2-3 times the size of the regular duncans ).
 
:) ORA duncans are huge, much larger than the norm. nice hitchhiker. i always keep my duncans in medium light. they benefit color wise and growth wise from this my ORA duncans were losing color in high light, so i moved to med light and they got all of it back, hope that helps

abe
 
my wild duncans from australia have gorw to the size of my ORA duncans. At first, I was positive that they were different, but now that they've been in the tank close to a year, they've grow bigger, and bushier, and turned even greener. Now you can't tell them apart other than one being like 50+ heads, and the other more like 10.

when I got the wild ones, the heads were MUCH smaller than they are now.
 
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