Duncan Coral Help

[The Cat Burglar]

I got a Duncan Coral Duncan Coral about 4 weeks ago and when I put it in my tank all was good. One day I noticed it had totally closed up. I originally put it on the sand bed, since it's closed I have moved it to various places in the tank, up high other side of the tank on the sand bed etc and it still won't open. It has been closed for roughly 3 weeks now. My parameters are

Nitrate 2ppm
Nitrite 0
Ammonia 0
Phosphate 0
Alk 8
Cal 450
Ph 8.0
Salinity 1.025

Lighting 4 Aquarays
1 x Marine White 14k Kelvin
1 x Reef White 19k kelvin
2 x Reef Blue 465n

I have attached some pictures and any help advice would be greatly appreciated

 

[Mark9]

Really hard to tell anything from those pictures.
But, regardless, I always put my duncan on the sand.
Do you have any flow on them? Mine like flow.
Your parameters look good, maybe try less light?
Can you post better pictures?

 

[fredfish13]

My Duncan does not do well in bright light. I always put them on the sand or close and off to the sides of tank.

 

[The Cat Burglar]

Cheers guys I'll try get some better pictures tomorrow when lights are on full, in the meantime I'll try moving him to the side of the tank where the LED Aquarays are not directly over it and it should get more flow in that area too.

 

[Mark9]

Here's a picture of mine, bottom, quite alot of flow.
Got it as a 2 head frag, 6 heads now.

 

[The Cat Burglar]

Really nice Mark, fingers crossed mine will look like that someday soon . Moved him across the tank were he will get a higher amount of flow and he won't be directly under my lights. Syringed in some reef roids and he took it so hopefully moving him to this part of the tank works.

 

[Mark9]

Really nice Mark, fingers crossed mine will look like that someday soon . Moved him across the tank were he will get a higher amount of flow and he won't be directly under my lights. Syringed in some reef roids and he took it so hopefully moving him to this part of the tank works.

Him taking food is a good sign.
I feed mine Larrys Reef Frenzy.
Generally, if a coral looks unhappy, move it.
I'm continually moving corals.