Coelli
04/27/2015, 11:41 PM
My LFS (which specializes in coral) has a duncan colony which is different from every other duncan I've ever seen and I'm wondering if anyone knows anything about it.
Most duncans seem to be branching, with hard green branches, green centers, and a range of pink, purple, brown, etc. tentacles depending on light and flow.
The one my LFS has, and which I have a small colony from, doesn't branch at all. Rather it encrusts and forms a solid base from which the heads extend directly. The flesh is entirely pink and the tentacles are the same color except the tips which are neon green. It is definitely a duncan, and behaves the same way, feeds the same way, etc. When mine closes for the night it's a pink lump and the heads are just purplish bumps. In order to frag it, my LFS has to use a coral saw to cut a chunk off. The heads can sometimes expand to almost 2" across.
How common are these? I've never seen them anywhere else and could only find a couple of pics of similar ones. Is it just because they're so much harder to frag than cutting off branches?
Here's my colony shortly after I got it, to the right of a normal duncan. It's grown several new heads since.
https://farm9.staticflickr.com/8814/16674743674_02e1ee241f_b.jpg
And another of it partially closed, you can see the pink solid base.
https://farm9.staticflickr.com/8582/15565889544_9037f10375_b.jpg
Most duncans seem to be branching, with hard green branches, green centers, and a range of pink, purple, brown, etc. tentacles depending on light and flow.
The one my LFS has, and which I have a small colony from, doesn't branch at all. Rather it encrusts and forms a solid base from which the heads extend directly. The flesh is entirely pink and the tentacles are the same color except the tips which are neon green. It is definitely a duncan, and behaves the same way, feeds the same way, etc. When mine closes for the night it's a pink lump and the heads are just purplish bumps. In order to frag it, my LFS has to use a coral saw to cut a chunk off. The heads can sometimes expand to almost 2" across.
How common are these? I've never seen them anywhere else and could only find a couple of pics of similar ones. Is it just because they're so much harder to frag than cutting off branches?
Here's my colony shortly after I got it, to the right of a normal duncan. It's grown several new heads since.
https://farm9.staticflickr.com/8814/16674743674_02e1ee241f_b.jpg
And another of it partially closed, you can see the pink solid base.
https://farm9.staticflickr.com/8582/15565889544_9037f10375_b.jpg