Aarghh! What Happend To My Duncans?

[daveo_irl]

Is it posible that your light are far brighter than from whence they came?

Seffie x

I'm pretty sure that quote comes from a work by Shakespeare.

 

[Anguilla82]

Is it posible that your light are far brighter than from whence they came?

Seffie x

I'm pretty sure that quote comes from a work by Shakespeare.

LOL!!

seffie - yeah possible. the frag came from mail order corals, but no idea what they keep their stock under.

as for teh duncans they are back in their skeleton at the moment.

 

[TigerIssey]

Rob mine did have massive sulks like this for a few weeks, after that I moved it to better flow on Big C's suggestion and it has gone from stregth to stregth.

I am feeding it 6 days a week at the moment, the only coral I am feeding so heavily, but it is responding very well to these heavy feedings and is twice the size that it was.

 

[Buddyboy67]

Hold tight mate...both the blue tipped frogspawn in my tank and the little branching hammer in mini's nano were simply calcareous stalks for about 4/5 weeks...left them in situ in the tank, dropping them out of flow and bright light and are now both thriving again....duncs can be placed pretty low in a system and will open up more for the light then....check your kH and alkalinity mate as this can cause corals to receed if unstable...

 

[Buddyboy67]

Forgot to check....have you got cleaners or other shrimp in there that may have realised it's an easy feeding post at feeding times and subsequently pestering it....i get that on my sun corals quite often

 

[Anguilla82]

cheers for the ideas.

duncs are already placed at bottom of tank and in reasonable flow.
I haven't had them long enough/fed them enough for the shrimp to discover them at feeding time.

we'll just wait and see i think. as you say some corals can seem totally dead then come back to life.

 

[seffieuk]

How are they today Rob?

Seffie x

 

[Anguilla82]

retracted right back again!

 

[john.o]

Rob I had a very similar problem with my sun coral. It turns out that after feeding time my crabs and shrimp where clambering all over it and steeling its food I must of lost about 70 – 80 % of the heads so I took a 2 litter pop bottle put loads and load of tiny holes in it so no cuc could get in there but plenty of flow could get through placed it over the coral and just left if there it’s been like that for 2 months now and after feeding every other day I now have 16 new baby heads. I know the Duncan sources most of its nourishment form the light but is it possible that it has not been getting enough flow over it {in the lfs tank? Your tank?} to carry the food to it? I would just try the pop bottle trick and drop a little marine snow or some think like that in there and see if they poke their heads out when they smell the food.

 

[seffieuk]

That's a good tip

Seffie x

 

[Anguilla82]

yeah good tip john, bud sadly they are in good flow and were catching a good amount of food, as i watched them doing it.
thankfully my shrimp have not found that they are a soucre of food for them, they stick round the back of the rocks and to my fungias.


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