Blue Duncans

[inselaffe]

I have never seen blue Duncans before in the UK and a friend has them in his tank and I can't find out much info on them. Are they rare or does anyone else have them?

[inselaffe]

http://www.ultimatereef.net/uploader/2011Q3/steves%20meet%20(17).JPG

[3.99AfterTaxes]

I've never seen those before, but damn you, now I have to clean the drool off my desk...

[dwarf_angels31]

I have never seen them but those are amazing!!! I want some

[skyline377]

Very nice looking!!!!!

[JPhan1]

Nice never seen them but I want some.

[Sheol]

Those are almost unbelievably cool looking!

Matthew

[organism]

They're not uncommon at all, about 1 out of every 4 colonies that comes in from Australia are blue and they cost retailers the same amount. You can find them all over the country since most people just call them duncans no matter what the color, they're literally all over the place. I've got tons of different colony pictures on an external HD somewhere, here's one though.

http://www.reefcentral.com/forums/attachment.php?attachmentid=155920&stc=1&d=1312159329

[inselaffe]

Well i had never seen them here in the UK in the last three years I have been keeping marines and I go to alot of LFS so maybe most of the blue ones go to the states.

[oceanarium]

Love that colony inselaffe :inlove:

I get Duncan's from every state in Australia out of thousands never seen a blue one yet :confused: yellow, brown and greens only.

Perhaps Organism the distributor you see them come through only get a supply from the one collector who targets are more defined area?

[organism]

Perhaps Organism the distributor you see them come through only get a supply from the one collector who targets are more defined area?

I've seen them from several different collectors, the thing is I've never held onto any long term so it's really likely they don't hold the blue color. I'd put money on "blue" ones being just regular green ones collected at a different depth that color back up to green once they spend a little time in captivity.

My guess is divers for the states dive deeper to get different corals, whereas the non-exporting divers collecting for the Aussie market stick to shallower areas that are full of green duncans.

[oceanarium]

Most of the divers sell local as well as export. The open branch ones are deep water, ones like your picture are shallow collected.

[organism]

Well then, looks like I learned something new today, thanks for clearing that one up :)

I'm not sure if they keep the color, will check with some of the people who are farming them out to see how they've done.

[inselaffe]

iirc he has had them about 6 months and said there very very slow at growing compaired to the green. I am first in line for a frag of the blue ones =D