Duncanopsammia axifuga
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StashuDave
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Here's the Pink version. It does look similar to sun coral, but does not act like it. I originally got it because it was a hot, rare coral, but now I like it because I'm an LPS freak and it's fun to feed. It is fully open during the day which makes it convenient and fun to feed. It seems to like larger chunks of food like pieces of Krill, and when well fed grows really quickly. Dave
RandyO
Active member
Growth Sequence of my Duncanopsammia
Growth Sequence of my Duncanopsammia
I received a frag from Sanjay back in February, when I purchased his 180 gallon complete reef tank. Part of the reason I agreed to buy his whole setup was to get a piece of his Duncan.
When Keith and I got there, he was very reluctant to frag it. It was only 5 heads, and he said he had it for years, with not much luck of growing it. I think he said he got it from Eric B., but I'm not 100%. I grabbed a pair of my coral cutters, and we debated on where it should be cut. Of course, I wanted as big of a frag as I could get, Sanjay wanted to give as little of it away as possible. I ended up cutting off one full branch, with a half a polyp attached. It was good enough for me. I had been looking for a piece of this coral for over 10 years, ever since I saw it in Eric Bornaman's book, A practical Guide to Corals. He called it, "The Whiskers Coral".
Here is the frag I got from Sanjay. This picture was taken in March, and the half polyp quickly filled in the other half with tentacles. I had glued it to a small rock when I got home from Sanjay's, late that night.
I kept the frag on the bottom of my 40 breeder, lit with 2 96 watt PC's. I had the frag in a plastic cup, so no other corals would accidentally fall onto it. I treated it like gold, and was very careful with it, since I knew it would be hard to find another one. I tried to feed it at least once a week.
By May, it started sprouting little buds off the tentacles.
So I started feeding it a little more. And that's when the growth started to take off. Within no time, those buds were full polyps, and then those polyps were making more buds.
By August, I had close to 12 heads.
Here it is closed up in August, so you can see the skeletal formation.
In September, A local reefer had told me that ORA had a colony, and was starting to sell frags, but it was impossible to get one from them. He asked me to frag mine. So I cut off a single head. I had noticed where I fragged it, new tentacles formed out of the cut within a week.
Here is the coral in December. I had fragged it again, this time I took a 3 polyp piece off it. The frag is next to the colony.
Here's a terrible pic of the underside. You can see where I cut the 3 polyp branch off. This is a few days after the cut, and tentacles are already forming over the cut.
The last time I looked under my mother colony, there were 6 or more new buds.
Growth Sequence of my Duncanopsammia
I received a frag from Sanjay back in February, when I purchased his 180 gallon complete reef tank. Part of the reason I agreed to buy his whole setup was to get a piece of his Duncan.
When Keith and I got there, he was very reluctant to frag it. It was only 5 heads, and he said he had it for years, with not much luck of growing it. I think he said he got it from Eric B., but I'm not 100%. I grabbed a pair of my coral cutters, and we debated on where it should be cut. Of course, I wanted as big of a frag as I could get, Sanjay wanted to give as little of it away as possible. I ended up cutting off one full branch, with a half a polyp attached. It was good enough for me. I had been looking for a piece of this coral for over 10 years, ever since I saw it in Eric Bornaman's book, A practical Guide to Corals. He called it, "The Whiskers Coral".
Here is the frag I got from Sanjay. This picture was taken in March, and the half polyp quickly filled in the other half with tentacles. I had glued it to a small rock when I got home from Sanjay's, late that night.
I kept the frag on the bottom of my 40 breeder, lit with 2 96 watt PC's. I had the frag in a plastic cup, so no other corals would accidentally fall onto it. I treated it like gold, and was very careful with it, since I knew it would be hard to find another one. I tried to feed it at least once a week.
By May, it started sprouting little buds off the tentacles.
So I started feeding it a little more. And that's when the growth started to take off. Within no time, those buds were full polyps, and then those polyps were making more buds.
By August, I had close to 12 heads.
Here it is closed up in August, so you can see the skeletal formation.
In September, A local reefer had told me that ORA had a colony, and was starting to sell frags, but it was impossible to get one from them. He asked me to frag mine. So I cut off a single head. I had noticed where I fragged it, new tentacles formed out of the cut within a week.
Here is the coral in December. I had fragged it again, this time I took a 3 polyp piece off it. The frag is next to the colony.
Here's a terrible pic of the underside. You can see where I cut the 3 polyp branch off. This is a few days after the cut, and tentacles are already forming over the cut.
The last time I looked under my mother colony, there were 6 or more new buds.
kase
New member
here is a link for anyone that is looking for frag of these, it's pretty cheap $25 per polyps now. so there are not as hard to get your hands on them know.
http://www.roesmarineworld.com/newbies.php
but these are what i have been looking for and where hard to find or get. since there are from the sea of japan and you can not collect or import/export them.
Rhizotrochus Typus going for around $350(US)per polyp.
here a link to them but it's all in Japanesse
http://www.petballoon.co.jp/item/viewItem.php?prm=CH067
this is there coral section of the page if you couldn't find it.
http://www.petballoon.co.jp/item/viewGroup.php?prm=C
http://www.roesmarineworld.com/newbies.php
but these are what i have been looking for and where hard to find or get. since there are from the sea of japan and you can not collect or import/export them.
Rhizotrochus Typus going for around $350(US)per polyp.
here a link to them but it's all in Japanesse
http://www.petballoon.co.jp/item/viewItem.php?prm=CH067
this is there coral section of the page if you couldn't find it.
http://www.petballoon.co.jp/item/viewGroup.php?prm=C
Gary Majchrzak
Team RC
PCIALF- Nice macro shot. From your pic I can clearly see some Bryozoans on the coral. I didn't see them on the coral when it was at MO.
Gary Majchrzak
Team RC
Bryozoans are harmless. 
2crazyreefers
New member
Not to bud in here but I like this forum. Recently I was lucky enough to get 2 of these from ORA with one having 5 heads and the other had 4 heads. It is my understanding that ORA releases very few of these corals. Also the ones at Roes are different than the ORA strain. I have 1 under halides and the other under PC, seems they are fine either way. Gary G came by this past weekend and saw one (of course he wanted to take it home) but I am growing them out to frag and Gary will get his soon.
Gary Majchrzak
Team RC
Is it the pictures, active discussions or ?
Whatever the case, you're welcome to post here.
I forgot to check on it, but I don't think PCIALF's Duncan is from ORA and I know it's not from Roes. I'm pretty sure it came from Quality Marine or Sea Dwelling Creatures....
Sanjay
Premium Member
Re: Growth Sequence of my Duncanopsammia
Re: Growth Sequence of my Duncanopsammia
Randy let me set your story straight
I got that coral from Randy Donowitz in NY, who got it from Julian. So now you have the full history.
I got 2 polyps and it grew out to what I had in about 6 months.. and I was not feeding the coral actively. So it was growing well for me. The remaining peices I had have now turned into a colony of about 12 heads, without active feeding.
I took 3 heads from it, and put it in my new tank in Nov, and startted feeding it every other day. It now has about 8 new heads in about 2.5 months !!!
The coral does well without feeding since it is photosynthetic, but feeding it makes it really grow fast. The color variations are just a function of lighting and polyp expansion. It has nice greenish center with short polyps in my 55G tank... but is more brownish with quite long polyps in my other tank.
So there you go
sanjay.
Re: Growth Sequence of my Duncanopsammia
Randy let me set your story straight
I got that coral from Randy Donowitz in NY, who got it from Julian. So now you have the full history.
I got 2 polyps and it grew out to what I had in about 6 months.. and I was not feeding the coral actively. So it was growing well for me. The remaining peices I had have now turned into a colony of about 12 heads, without active feeding.
I took 3 heads from it, and put it in my new tank in Nov, and startted feeding it every other day. It now has about 8 new heads in about 2.5 months !!!
The coral does well without feeding since it is photosynthetic, but feeding it makes it really grow fast. The color variations are just a function of lighting and polyp expansion. It has nice greenish center with short polyps in my 55G tank... but is more brownish with quite long polyps in my other tank.
So there you go
sanjay.
RandyO
Active member
Hey Sanjay,
Thanks for setting me straight. I hate giving out the wrong info and it was almost a year ago that we talked about it, so I couldn't remember exactly.
That interesting that your piece originally came from Julian, since the ORA strain is also originally from Julian.
These two Duncans are sitting rigtht next to each other, and they look so different.
Both from the same Mother.
I wonder what ORA does to get that green color to come out so nicely.
Thanks for setting me straight. I hate giving out the wrong info and it was almost a year ago that we talked about it, so I couldn't remember exactly.
That interesting that your piece originally came from Julian, since the ORA strain is also originally from Julian.
These two Duncans are sitting rigtht next to each other, and they look so different.
Both from the same Mother.
I wonder what ORA does to get that green color to come out so nicely.
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