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Post by scoobnoob on Jan 30, 2013 21:43:48 GMT -5
I was in petco today and they had Duncan's for $34.99 a frag, and Whisker coral for $12.99 a frag. I was under the impression they were the same coral???
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Post by seamonkey84 on Jan 30, 2013 21:47:56 GMT -5
They are the same coral, its just some weird way to differentiate the vendors and SKUs for prices.
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Post by ryansweatt2004 on Jan 31, 2013 12:43:55 GMT -5
Yea, it's just two different common a names for the same coral.
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Post by jstearn on Jan 31, 2013 13:47:23 GMT -5
The reason for the price difference is one is a ORA frag
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Post by lindsey1984 on Jan 31, 2013 14:29:22 GMT -5
What is an ORA? Also, what does aqua cultured mean? I don't personally have any corals yet so I'm Kinda clueless
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Post by seamonkey84 on Jan 31, 2013 14:55:14 GMT -5
My store (Portland) has three different duncan/whiskers with different prices from different vendors.
ORA is one of the top aquaculture/fish breeders, also kind of a "brand name". Aquaculture means "farmed" vs wild harvest.
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Post by lindsey1984 on Jan 31, 2013 15:58:00 GMT -5
Thanks seamonkey!
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Post by scoobnoob on Jan 31, 2013 18:36:16 GMT -5
So the expensive ones are ORA and the cheap ones are Wild? They grow quick and are easy to care for I've had mine for 5 years and have sold frags as "duncans" I just wanted to be sure I was being truthful to my customers. I do like being able to order ORA fish from petco my Yellow Watchman is ORA and doing great.
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Post by ryansweatt2004 on Jan 31, 2013 18:45:53 GMT -5
The ORA Duncan's are a lot harder to frag. They don't branch out the same way as some of the other ones.
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Post by seamonkey84 on Feb 1, 2013 2:20:26 GMT -5
ORA is the name brand so they go for a premium...
Almost all the corals I have at the store are aquacultured. The Duncan/whiskers are all aqua cultured, also plus one to the ORA being very ightingL growing, I've been spot feeding like a sob to try and get them heads to grow and spread, but they are still too close together to frag, especially since I'll be using just my bone cutter and chisel.
Setes we get in the big colonies (items pushed on the store for a sale) are wild or farmed in open ocean (protected lagoons and the like) vs captive tank grown.
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Post by scoobnoob on Feb 1, 2013 5:40:28 GMT -5
My Duncans are a pain to frag too..I use a diamond wheel on a dremel...and can rarely frag from them being too close together. I like the "inside look at pecto" you give us seamonkey, thanks for that insight.
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Post by gotareef on Feb 1, 2013 8:25:56 GMT -5
first off all duncan are wisker corals!
any tank raised duncan will be harder to frag than a wild. the duncans in the wild have to stretch for light so they grow longer branches in a reef tank they get pounded with light so they wont stretch so the stalks are thicker and polyps are crammed together
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Post by ryansweatt2004 on Feb 1, 2013 10:18:54 GMT -5
Rob, you should check mine out sometime. I've got a colony of ORA Duncan's mounted on the same rock as a colony of Duncan's same as what Christian aquacultures in unity. I keep them all on my sand under 250w halides. They all grow super fast but the ORA Duncan's are growing in a dense cluster without any branches while all my other Duncan's grow nice long branches. Don't ask me why they grow different but they do and I'm not the only person to see this either. I'll try to get a pic of them both tonight to show you.
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Post by gotareef on Feb 1, 2013 16:40:19 GMT -5
are they green duncans, purple duncans, purple lace duncans?
I have purple lace duncans they have always grown from a cluster (past 5 years) now that it is getting bigger (25+ heads) it is starting to branch
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Post by ryansweatt2004 on Feb 1, 2013 17:20:51 GMT -5
Just green ORA Duncan's. I picked them from an ORA order that penny got in when I worked at aquacorals. They have neon green oral disks and mint green tentacles with no branches. My colony had over forty five polyps before I fraged them. They have been growing more like a closed fist. The other Duncan's growing on the same rock grow long separate branches.
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