can anyone tell me what this is?

[mrkellis]

can anyone tell me what this is? It's closed up right now.

 

[bribo12]

It's a Duncan coral

 

[mrkellis]

thanks! I picked him up from my lfs for 40$ today.

 

[bribo12]

Wow great deal! Usually they're $5-10 a head

 

[54seaweed]

Wow great deal! Usually they're $5-10 a head

great deal is right I paid $40. for 2 heads

 

[bribo12]

great deal is right I paid $40. for 2 heads

I paid $60 a year and a half ago for 2 heads

 

[mrkellis]

Really?! There's well over 10 on this piece

 

[mrkellis]

The guy was originally asking 140 but took 100 off because he was moving shops and didn't want to pack up as much

 

[traviere]

Boys and girls, I hate to disagree and I could still be wrong but that looks identical to a trumpet coral when it's not extended. Here is a pic of a Duncan
And now a picture of a trumpet
. If you notice the closed up trumpet on the left, it looks very similar to your pic.

 

[bribo12]

It looks like a closed up Duncan. The little heads growing on the side seem to me that its a Duncan. Also the amount of flesh. Op has it opened up at all?

 

[mrkellis]

It started to open up this am when I got up for work

 

[BigRedsReefs10]

I agree with it being a Duncan

 

[kdpuffer]

It is most definitely a duncan. Trumpet coral aka candy cane has a plain non tissue skeleton where as duncan has tissue covering its skeleton typically being green in color.

 

[mrkellis]

finally starting to open!

 

[bribo12]

Yup Duncan

 

[Piercy87]

Deffo a Duncan I got this frag for £10 the other day they had a huge one that was around £160 but wasn't selling so fragged it