Will a Duncan sting its SPS neighbor?

[dixiedog]

I have one that's going to start brushing up against the bottom of my Hawkins echinata, on the encrustation. Do I need to trim the duncan back right away, or can I just wait and see what happens?

I have noticed that the duncan seems to not harm the zoas it touches, which is good, but still I thought I'd ask.

 

[chrishayes]

Im interested to know as well. I am going to be adding a duncan to my all sps tank soon and would love it if they arent too aggressive.

 

[sreefs]

I don't think the Hawkins echinata will like the duncan's touching it. My guess is the Hawkins would recede from it.
IMO

 

[CustomNanoz]

I would say almost for sure the acro or sps will stn/rtn where it is touch by most lps. and the colony that grows faster will always win and kill.

 

[Bigmike]

I have a duncan touching an acro, it's definitely not stinging the acro but I could see how it would smother an acro eventually by its polyps growing over the acro. If your duncan is under your hawkins I would not worry about it at all.

 

[Felixc395]

Duncan's don't sting... But it may irritate.

 

[Logzor]

Wrong! Duncans will kill any SPS tissue within close proximity.

Move the Hawkins, that's a very sensitive SPS and you wouldn't want the Duncan to cause a RTN event.

 

[Bigmike]

Wrong! Duncans will kill any SPS tissue within close proximity.

My duncan has been touching an acro for months now, do yo not believe me, should I take a picture?

 

[Logzor]

Regardless of what yours is doing I think it's a bad idea to let an LPS touch an incredibly sensitive SPS. I believe you, no need for pictures.

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[xcorallusx]

most lps will take out sps

 

[danreefman]

duncans are very non aggressive Ive had them touching SPS. more aggressive sps will do fine, in fact they will cause duncan to close and start growing in the opposite direction as the sps. But my Ice fire was being touched by it and it started getting sting spots.

 

[dixiedog]

Well speaking of pictures, here's mine. Based on the variety of responses, I'm inclined to just closely monitor the situation and see how it goes, in the interest of learning. The Duncan is not fully extended here; I think at night there may already be some touching going on.

 

[sfexplicit]

My duncans kill any sps tissue it touches.