What to feed Duncan coral?

[Dcole12]

Hi everyone, I am looking to get a Duncan coral, but I just want to get your input on what I should feed the coral? Thanks for th e help!

 

[Tahoe61]

Any meaty seafoods like frozen, or sinking pellets.

 

[lapin]

I feed mine;
frozen; enriched brine, mysis, rodifers, fish eggs, calanus,
this is mixed some times with phytofeast and oysterfeast
If I can remember when feeding the fish, it gets some live white and black worms.
Im sure it captures some pods I see crawling around.

 

[Oberst Oswald]

Feed it heavy with the "good stuff" every day and watch it grow. The hungriest coral I have owned.

 

[The Aquatic Arsenal]

Looks like you have some good answers above. They can grow quite fast with feeding like mentioned. They are one of my favorite corals!

 

[Dcole12]

I feed mine;
frozen; enriched brine, mysis, rodifers, fish eggs, calanus,
this is mixed some times with phytofeast and oysterfeast
If I can remember when feeding the fish, it gets some live white and black worms.
Im sure it captures some pods I see crawling around.

Do you have any pictures of your corals? I'd love to see them!

 

[Dcole12]

Looks like you have some good answers above. They can grow quite fast with feeding like mentioned. They are one of my favorite corals!

I am extremely excifted to see it grow! It currently has one head and I fed it some brine shrimp last night!

 

[The Aquatic Arsenal]

I am extremely excifted to see it grow! It currently has one head and I fed it some brine shrimp last night!

I think watching coral grow and thrive in our tanks is one of the greatest rewards of the hobby!!!

 

[michael lyons]

One of the best corals to have, I feed it cut up shrimp very small pieces and also Mysis shrimp it seems to eat anything it catches they do grow pretty fast. you can see mine just above my hawk that pic was couple months ago i have since moved it and it's a lot bigger now

 

[lapin]

Do you have any pictures of your corals? I'd love to see them!

Here is the duncan in the 20G nem tank
A little wind blown hair doo

 

[Dcole12]

Here is the duncan in the 20G nem tank
A little wind blown hair doo

How old is your coral?

 

[lapin]

How old is your coral?

It did not come with a birth certificate.
Maybe 12 heads old ????

 

[Dcole12]

It did not come with a birth certificate.
Maybe 12 heads old ????

Hahah good one.. I mean how long have you had it and what did it start at?

 

[lapin]

I think this one was 5 heads a few months ago.
It likes being fed 2 x a day with my sun corals.

 

[Barnabie Mejia]

I kinda feel like my Duncan isn't doing too well..... he hasn't been opening up lately, I kinda think it doesn't like the vibrant dosing going on right now..

 

[Dcole12]

@lapin Would definitely be able to give you good information on this. What are you feeding it? How often do you feed it? I just got mine on monday. I have only fed it once since. Should I feed it more? Mine is open and seems like it is doing well.

 

[Scrubber_steve]

I think watching coral grow and thrive in our tanks is one of the greatest rewards of the hobby!!!

Well it certainly beats watching them die.

 

[lapin]

I kinda feel like my Duncan isn't doing too well..... he hasn't been opening up lately, I kinda think it doesn't like the vibrant dosing going on right now..

It could be the vibrant because you are changing your water chemistry. They do like good light and what I call medium random flow.
Was it doing well before?
How long have you had it?
Are your tank numbers steady or?

 

[Dcole12]

It could be the vibrant because you are changing your water chemistry. They do like good light and what I call medium random flow.
Was it doing well before?
How long have you had it?
Are your tank numbers steady or?

SO they don't need a lot of light and like low flow?

 

[Pdash]

SO they don't need a lot of light and like low flow?

Mine seems to like medium to high flow, and can tolerate a wide range of lighting intensity. I've had her in anywhere from 75 or less to close to 300 PAR, and she just keeps growing.