Duncans

[bohlke]

Ok so I had to move my Duncans to the substrate, is this a bad idea? Also does anyone have any tips for fragging these corals? Here is a pic, looks happy in the sandbed (please ignore the dirty glass):

 

[650-IS350]

nope, mine are on the bottom on the sand

 

[RevHtree]

My are fine as well in the sand. Actually grew a bunch of heads there. LOL!

 

[bohlke]

<a href=showthread.php?s=&postid=11350982#post11350982 target=_blank>Originally posted</a> by RevHtree
My are fine as well in the sand. Actually grew a bunch of heads there. LOL!

Have you tried to frag them? Any tips would be a great help.

 

[RevHtree]

Yea I have fragged them. I took a pair of strong cutters from home depot and just snipped off the head as low on the stalk as I could get.

 

[Animal Mother]

Just break them off at the base of the stems, where they attach to the other stems. A good yank should do the trick. Just put the leverage on the joint where you want it to snap. Watched the guy who sold them to me do it. Mine are doing great, opened up as soon as I put them in the tank... so this method of fragging seems fine.

All I've read about them (just got some myself a week ago) is that they are always found attached to rocks, not on sand. I imagine as long as the soft tissue isn't being irritated by sand it would be fine.

Did yours start out with the long dark colored tentacles? Mine are green with yellowish and pinkish colored tentacles.

 

[bohlke]

<a href=showthread.php?s=&postid=11351523#post11351523 target=_blank>Originally posted</a> by Animal Mother
Just break them off at the base of the stems, where they attach to the other stems. A good yank should do the trick. Just put the leverage on the joint where you want it to snap. Watched the guy who sold them to me do it. Mine are doing great, opened up as soon as I put them in the tank... so this method of fragging seems fine.

All I've read about them (just got some myself a week ago) is that they are always found attached to rocks, not on sand. I imagine as long as the soft tissue isn't being irritated by sand it would be fine.

Did yours start out with the long dark colored tentacles? Mine are green with yellowish and pinkish colored tentacles.

Mine are green but the shade of green changes all of the time. Now that they are not in such a high flow area I think they will be much happier.

 

[Echidna09]

Mine have been on the sand for three months and doubled in head count.

 

[FroggyFeet]

How much do duncans go for? A LFS around here wants like $200 for, four heads!

 

[Animal Mother]

I paid $75 including tax for 2 heads.

 

[bohlke]

I got mine (pictured above) for $19 a head.

 

[gasman059]

kind of crazy pricing fellows.

Duncans should sell for no more than $20 a head IME, as as low as 8-$10 a head(great price)

There's a lot of wild aussie coming in and tons of duncans are going to be available-although I dunno if a lot reaches Nebraska.

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[Racing1]

I agree that pricing seems to be too high, my local lfs wants $45.00 a head. I think that is too much. Will wait to see if I can get some when the price goes down...

 

[gastone]

For fragging duncans, go here:

http://blogs.frags.org/member.php?uid=4043

Garrett.

 

[ct_vol]

<a href=showthread.php?s=&postid=11356629#post11356629 target=_blank>Originally posted</a> by FroggyFeet
How much do duncans go for? A LFS around here wants like $200 for, four heads!

Price of Duncans depends a lot on where they come from... ORA duncans and DFS Whisker duncans are going to be your most expensive because of their size and their commercial outlet... Viper has a great comparison pic between ORA and some Roe's Marine World Duncans... The RMW duncans are maybe 20% of the size of the ORA's...

 

[bohlke]

<a href=showthread.php?s=&postid=11361151#post11361151 target=_blank>Originally posted</a> by ct_vol
Price of Duncans depends a lot on where they come from... ORA duncans and DFS Whisker duncans are going to be your most expensive because of their size and their commercial outlet... Viper has a great comparison pic between ORA and some Roe's Marine World Duncans... The RMW duncans are maybe 20% of the size of the ORA's...

Mine are Duncanopsamia Axifuga, I would say the heads are about the size of a quarter to a half dollar.

 

[ct_vol]

<a href=showthread.php?s=&postid=11361976#post11361976 target=_blank>Originally posted</a> by bohlke
Mine are Duncanopsamia Axifuga, I would say the heads are about the size of a quarter to a half dollar.

FWIW the ORA's are easily 1 1/2" in diameter 2 1/2 - 3" in diameter including the tentacles...

 

[RevHtree]

Here is a pic of mine.

 

[JenDub]

<a href=showthread.php?s=&postid=11360270#post11360270 target=_blank>Originally posted</a> by gastone
For fragging duncans, go here:

http://blogs.frags.org/member.php?uid=4043

Garrett.

I always wondered if anyone reads my blog =) I'm going to have to start posting new stuff now!

 

[Animal Mother]

I've heard the ORA Duncans can reach ~3" heads, and even up to 4" heads occasionally.

Mine are wild, and about quarter size, but bigger than they were when I bought them.