First Two Coral

Arcticfirefighter · Oct 5, 2018

So I finally decided to jump into the coral aspect of the reef tank. Tank has only been up for about 3 months, and I wanted to take it slow. So I jumped on two very small beginner coral that were on sale, got them both for about $14.00. Grabbed a Duncan and a GSP. Put them in yesterday evening and twelve hours later they have both opened up and look like they are enjoying themselves. Eventually, I will move the GSP and isolate it to a small rock in the open. Anything I should know tips/tricks with the Duncan?

Crabs McJones · Oct 5, 2018

Congrats on the new coral

The duncan will appreciate low light and low to moderate flow. They duplicate pretty quickly, when I started the hobby over 3 years ago, I had a single head much like yours, today I have so many I can't even count the total, its easily the size of a softball

Arcticfirefighter · Oct 5, 2018

Crabs Mcjones said:
Congrats on the new coral The duncan will appreciate low light and low to moderate flow. They duplicate pretty quickly, when I started the hobby over 3 years ago, I had a single head much like yours, today I have so many I can't even count the total, its easily the size of a softball

Thanks! I have been chomping at the bit to get some, but I wanted to make sure everything was stable first. We will see how these go, and then expand from there. Looking forward to seeing that first new head eventually.

dwest · Oct 5, 2018

Arcticfirefighter said:
So I finally decided to jump into the coral aspect of the reef tank. Tank has only been up for about 3 months, and I wanted to take it slow. So I jumped on two very small beginner coral that were on sale, got them both for about $14.00. Grabbed a Duncan and a GSP. Put them in yesterday evening and twelve hours later they have both opened up and look like they are enjoying themselves. Eventually, I will move the GSP and isolate it to a small rock in the open. Anything I should know tips/tricks with the Duncan?

Agree with crabs. Nice job thinking this through and isolating gsp. You’ll be happy you did that.

Crabs McJones · Oct 5, 2018

dwest said:
Agree with crabs. Nice job thinking this through and isolating gsp. You’ll be happy you did that.

Agreed! I made the mistake early on of putting it on my main rockwork. I then got into more expensive SPS corals, and sure enough it started taking them over. I ended up taking the rock out and removing all traces of GSP before it choked out my expensive acropora

Opus · Oct 5, 2018

I can remember when duncan was over $200 for a head. I had mine under high light and it seemed to like it.

Shawna Solomon · Oct 6, 2018

I bought a Duncan three months ago with a head similar in size to yours and now it has three heads and growing a fourth. It’s at the bottom of my tank in low light with low flow and I feed it my sis shrimp two times a week. I also add zoo plankton twice a week not sure if that’s why it’s doing good but I enjoy the growth so I’m keeping my routine lol. GSP is also a great one that grows pretty good mine is on my over flow boxes because I think it looks cool and it gets moderate flow and is growing really good. Congrats! I’ve had my Duncan since the tank was a week old so I’d say they are pretty hardy lol.