Duncans not doing well

[Jimmy Wright]

Also keep an eye on the cleaner shrimp they like to go in and steal food from mouths every chance they get

 

[Orcrone]

Also keep an eye on the cleaner shrimp they like to go in and steal food from mouths every chance they get

Mine sure likes to do that. BTW, looks like we're neighbors. Where do you go for fish & coral? Ever go to Reef Dynamics on N. King Street?

 

[Jimmy Wright]

Live less than two miles away my girlfriend is angry at my addiction!

 

[y0ung0ne]

+1 lower the flow mine where not big because lfs had a power head blowing close and once I managed to find a lower flow area the grow to about the size of a half dollar now.

 

[DashHills]

Mine Duncans were doing great and having additional heads show and then all of a sudden they barely would come out. I found that a yellow goby was disturbing them. Once he stopped it still took a couple of weeks for them to come out. I feed them mysis shrimp once a week and they are coming out now.

 

[Orcrone]

I turned down the flow & they seem to be doing better. I'll keep my eye on them.

 

[LAKEM0NSTER]

Glad to hear!! Thats a nice piece of duncan by the way

 

[JuliusJames]

I've had my duncans for years. I started with about 20 and know they tripled quadrupled in size. There was a time where I kinda negelected my tank and the only coral I had was my duncans. It bleached pretty bad and thought it was a gonner. Then when I started my tank up again, it came back and doing outstanding and got its colors back.

Sometimes they will close up for a day or two for no apparent reason (as far as I know) and then they will flourish after that.

 

[Orcrone]

Thought of something else. I dosed with Tropic Marin Bio-Calc. I wonder if some fell on the duncans before dissolving & irritated them. Just took a couple of days to feel better.

 

[LAKEM0NSTER]

Yea that could be too. I had something similar happen with some zoas & water flow coming from canister filter filled with phosphate sponge. Took a few days for them to perk up.

 

[MrHarvard]

It is deff. the flow that is causing this. When I first got mine I wasnt sure where to place them so I put them in medium flow and they did the same thing. When I moved them to low flow they recovered within a few days...Good luck!