Duncan Digestion

[jafoca]

I got 4 polyps of Duncan last week and I want to make them grow like wildfire. From what I have read, all it takes to achieve this is decent water quality and keeping them well fed.

I have been feeding them krill twice a week when I am feeding my angler. The polyps aren't huge, but they can accept about 1/2 of a krill each.

So anyway, how often can I feed them? I would feed them daily if possible, but since they eat such large chunks... can they digest the whole chunk in a day?

They seem pretty happy thusfar.

How much can I cram down their.... polyps?

 

[cristhiam]

I feed mine 2 or 3 times a week, mine gets home made food: scallops, squid, mussels, clam, shrimp, formula 1, 2, pellets, flake, selcom, garlic, cyclopezee can't remember what else I put in there, but everything goes crazy on it , I got one from Roes about 3 weeks ago and I have 2 babies growing where it was cut from. They grow fast IMO. Just got my ORA yesterday.

 

[^CelticReefer^]

What I have found with mine is they don't do to well with large food. I got a 3 headed colony (and the polyps are huge) and started by feeding it mysis. After a few hours it would expell all the food it ate. After I saw it do this a few times my wife told me after I went to work it always released the food. ( I usally feed before I go in ) So I switched to cyclopeeze and no longer have the problem, neither of us has ever saw it release the cyclopeeze and my baby polyp count is up to 5.
Hope it helps,
Brian

 

[jafoca]

Thats interesting as I have heard that most people feed their duncans with larger chunkey foods. It seems like it would be tough to give them enough cyclops to make them "full". From what I can tell mine did not spit out the krill chunks i give them..

 

[slojmn]

Interesting, I have never seen mine expell a darn thing. they seem to suck down whatever lands on them. I feed a variety of foods and they will take it all in. I have 4 babies at this point, two of which are getting bigger by the week. I don't think you need to "cram" food down them every day. I feed mine a couple of times per week directly, otherwise they catch what they can during regular feedings to the fish. These guys grow pretty fast and seem to shoot out babies quickly if they are happy. My main polyp is so huge with long tenticles that I have to find a new home for it in the tank, some of the tenticles are getting uncomfortably close to my oregon tort.

 

[Asuran]

do duncans pack a great sting?

 

[ViPeR_930]

I feed my duncans frozen mysis from Hikari. IME my duncans spit out anything bigger than those mysis, even if I give a smaller quantity to match the amount. I usually give a good sized pinch to each of my ORA polyps, which I would estimate is about 10 shrimp or so.

 

[ktar]

i feed mine chopped up squid and they love it and i also feed mine brine shrimp mix with flake food and it eat everything i given it never seen it spit anything out yet. i started with one head and now it been like 3 months and i have 5 new babies and it still growing more babies heheheheh .

 

[ENraged]

Mine will wolf down large pieces of krill with no problem but my krill is the mashed up precubed stuff so maybe that makes a difference..
I feed mine Monday-Friday once a day.

 

[nmprisons]

Mine will, literally eat anything. Large chunks of quid, PE mysis, whatever. I do have the larger polyps, but they never spit anything out, no matter how big.

 

[ViPeR_930]

When I was feeding larger food I thought mine weren't spitting anything out. But then I started seeing balls of mysis rolling around the bottom after the lights turned out. And that's with my ORA duncans, which are 4" wide.

 

[Asuran]

i picked up a frag on friday and they will eat anything! One of the smaller polyps was able to catch a piece or PE mysis (it was the smallest polyp out of the 4) and after enjoying that meal it opened right back up again wanting more! but i have been feeding it mysis from hakari as they are much smaller

 

[RandyO]

<a href=showthread.php?s=&postid=9718089#post9718089 target=_blank>Originally posted</a> by Asuran
do duncans pack a great sting?

Yes, it's a strong sting.

 

[RandyO]

I've noticed with many of the corals I feed that they can digest Mysis and brine easier than larger chunky foods.

I noticed my tubastrea start to spit up large balls of mysis. When they were just about free, it sucked them back in.

Just my observations.

 

[Asuran]

Thanks RandyO

I know just where to place them now

<a href=showthread.php?s=&postid=9744714#post9744714 target=_blank>Originally posted</a> by RandyO
Yes, it's a strong sting.

 

[onano]

I feed mine 4-5 times per week. I have had it about 3 weeks. It was recently fragged but is already popping 3 heads. Its going to grow quickly. It eats everything.