Duncanopsammia axifuga

[Anonymous]

Nope. I'll leave that to ORA and Phishy Business. I'm just a trader

 

[bleedingthought]

Ok, so what will you trade it for?

 

[Anonymous]

wrong place for this conversation Things like this are best suited for a PM or email.

 

[Anonymous]

Oh, ok. Just trying to figure out the size of this thing. It looks really nice when open! The polyps are relatively the size of tubastraea polyps, then? And what are the requirements for it like - like most LPSs?

A little smaller than Tubastraea polyps. Probably closer to Turbinaria polyps in size.

As far as I know it's low light and current, and will benefit from regular feeding of mysis or other meaty stuff.

The colony I've been watching (and helping feed 4-5 mysids per polyp twice weekly) has gotten BIG. Started with 11 polyps about dime sized, now 11 polyps about silver dollar sized, with 5 new heads about the size of a small button that accept Cyclop-eeze. They grow new heads like Euphyllia spp., by a small bud on the skeleton base. New heads grow fast. The polyps are very sticky and thus easy to feed.

Here's a washed out camera phone pic. Under a 1000W MH.

 

[Anonymous]

Man that pic does not do it justice. The centers of this coral glow.

 

[bleedingthought]

Very nice! 8)
I really want one!!!

 

[Anonymous]

Odd, mine has different shaped tentacles?

 

[Anonymous]

Odd, mine has different shaped tentacles?

Yeah, that's why I was asking if yours had fully opened yet. They clearly look different. The picture of Sanjay's looks clearly different from yours also. At the same time, his looks very different in color from the picture I took. Maybe they're all just morphs, or maybe they're all just responding to different light/flow regimes. In any case, it looks like they do just fine under very high light.

The tentacles on this one remind me of some H. magnificas I've seen, at least in color. That nice transition from dark greenish gold to a light khaki color at the tip.

 

[Qwiv]

So how many Arcti-Pods you feeding that thing a day Gresham?

 

[Anonymous]

How ever many it catches when I feed the tank. I'm like a bartender, I measure from experience, not with a device I just squirt a bunch in :lol:

 

[Anonymous]

The one pictured would probably take a dozen mysids a day (each polyp) at least. It will easily take 3-4 at one feeding.

 

[Qwiv]

Any LFS around here have one on display, would like to see what it looks like in person.

 

[Anonymous]

Any LFS around here have one on display, would like to see what it looks like in person.

Huh?

 

[Qwiv]

Any LFS around here have one on display, would like to see what it looks like in person.

Huh?

??? Have you seen these at any of the LFS in the Bay Area? Would like to see one in a tank.

 

[Anonymous]

Stardate, November 28, 22006: Now up to 18 polyps on this colony.

 

[Anonymous]

Any LFS around here have one on display, would like to see what it looks like in person.

Huh?

??? Have you seen these at any of the LFS in the Bay Area? Would like to see one in a tank.

none that I know of. Any that carry ORA frags can get them on a very limitted bases.

 

[Anonymous]

It's funny, I can remember a handful of these passing through Jeff's Exotic back in the late 90s. They went for around $35 for a 4" colony... and didn't get sold all that quickly, either.

Now, I'm not saying they aren't nice. They are. But the sudden demand (and high price on them) just strikes me as another craze, like acanthastrea, echinophyllia, ricordea, etc etc. At least in this case the coral really is hard to get.

 

[Anonymous]

Stardate, November 28, 22006: Now up to 18 polyps on this colony.

Make that 19.

 

[bleedingthought]

Stardate, November 28, 22006: Now up to 18 polyps on this colony.

Make that 19.

Matt, that's 20 thousand years in the future!!!

 

[RandyO]

The 1.5 polyp frag I got from Sanjay turned into 18 adult polyps with a dozen new buds forming in 10 months.