Duncan Spawning?

[Rovert]

Is it normal for Duncans to "throw off" spawns, or is what I have a very large and thick apitasia?

I have three Duncans in my tank from Roes, one of which is ringed under the main polyp with at least five other smaller buds, but I just today noticed something on the side of my tank wall, and it seems way to thick to be an aiptasia, and the tentacles are the wrong shape.

Does someone have pictures?

 

[ViPeR_930]

Does someone have pictures of what? Aiptasia?

Got any pics of yours in question?

 

[Rovert]

Sorry, pics of spawned Duncans, if that's how they propagate. I can't get a good shot of mine, because it's at the side of a bowfront, and the glass distorts the shot by making it blurry.

 

[ViPeR_930]

I've never heard of anybody having duncans spawn, though I suppose it's possible.
They propagate by budding new polyps around the bases of adults which would eventually branch out.

What you have may be a majano anemone, if not aiptasia.

 

[paininthewrasse]

Its a majano anemone i guarantee it.

 

[chrisstie]

That's exactly what I was thinking pain.

There are other simimlar pest anemones that can grow very quickly and have a fat stubby base .. Duncans are a stony coral so if there isn't a skeleton it isnt a duncan They multiply by budding off a new stalk from the mother

 

[paininthewrasse]

yup and majanos actually look alot like duncans i've never really thought aobut that before though.

 

[Rovert]

Yeah, that's probably what it is. Looks like it's Joe's Juice for this guy.