Fragging a Duncanopsammia axifuga updated with pics Jan 3-09

[rocketlily]

Here's some pictures of the 2 corals that had a battle earlier this week.

This is one of the Acro that inflicted the damage and suffered no damage:



And here's the one who suffered the damage. It's not extended right now, as the lights just came on. All of the empty heads are the ones that died. I've been feeding it daily with Mysis to try and keep it healthy. I think I'll leave it a few weeks before trying to clean it up.

[Myka]

Your Duncan coral looks like it will survive just fine. i would do as you already are, just feed it well for a couple weeks, and reassess damage then. If it recedes a lot more though, then I would move in and remove all the dead tissues.

[marie]

Originally Posted by rocketlily

Here's some pictures of the 2 corals that had a battle earlier this week.

This is one of the Acro that inflicted the damage and suffered no damage:



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Just for the record that isn't an acro it's a hydnophora and I'd be careful what you put next to it, they can be very aggressive

[rocketlily]

Thank you Marie.

It was my first SPS coral purchase and sold to me as a Staghorn Acro. I always thought something wasn't quite right about it. Never posted any pictures of it before as I thought I must be doing something wrong for it to be extended so long all the time.

In the new tank, I've placed it all by itself. Should be able to keep it out of trouble for awhile. At night with only the Actinics on it does turn a beautiful flourescant green.

[noirsphynx]

Did you end up fragging the duncan? I often wondered how difficult that would be. If you happen to frag it and feel like fragging even a single head as an extra ::hint, hint:: I'd buy one from you

[noirsphynx]

Would that fragging method also work for an elegance?

[rocketlily]

I'm going to give it a few weeks to recover and then take a look at it. If it grows as much in the next 8 months as it has in the last 8 months, I will definately be fragging. In Feb of this year I had 10 heads and before this incident it had grown to over 60.

[noirsphynx]

Originally Posted by rocketlily

I'm going to give it a few weeks to recover and then take a look at it. If it grows as much in the next 8 months as it has in the last 8 months, I will definately be fragging. In Feb of this year I had 10 heads and before this incident it had grown to over 60.

Wow, that's amazing growth I bought a very nice & very large elegance that I'm sure I'll have to learn how to frag at some point so that it doesn't completely take over my tank.
I've been wanting some Duncans for a bit now so keep me in mind if you do frag. They're so beautiful and my tank is going to be LPS dominated.

[tang daddy]

as I stated before because most duncans have heads together in a clump or bundle if 1 gets stung then every head sprouting in the bunch will soon follow suit..... Hydronorpha have deadly sting and can send sweepers about 4in long at night from the pics there are a few branches that are seperate although on a few of those branches in the back row the heads look unhappy. Take it for what it's worth but mine wiped completely out in less than a week.

[argan]

just curious, about how long was it in contact with the bad guy to inflict that much damage?