Duncan Coral
Duncanopsammia axifuga, an LPS coral. Beginner to keep, typical PAR 75–150, low to moderate flow.
Also sold as Duncan.
A species, not a named morph. It names the animal, not one line of it.
Collector tier: common, where the trade ranks it from common through grail. In stock at 21 surveyed shops on 2026-10-19.
Branching LPS whose polyps stay extended day and night, each 2 to 3cm across on a round corallite of 10 to 14mm, branching at irregular intervals. Tentacles run green, purple, blue or tan and the strongest colour is usually in the oral disc, which is commonly teal to bright green.
Before you buy one
One of the best-value corals in the hobby: hardy, fast-multiplying and it responds visibly to feeding, which makes it a good learning animal. It is a genuinely heavy heterotroph rather than a coral that merely tolerates food, and keepers who feed meaty foods two or three times a week report noticeably faster head production.
Keeping LPS of this kind
Sandbed or low rock with room around it, and it takes food. Duncan Coral is beginner to keep at a typical PAR of 75–150 in low to moderate flow. A typical starting range for this type of coral, not measured on this one.
Full care notes for LPS of this kind
What Duncan Coral goes for
No verified sales yet. A range publishes once 3 dated, checkable records from 3 different sources exist, priced per head and reported as a median, with what shops ask kept separate from what buyers paid. One head is one polyp of a branching LPS. A five-head piece is divided by five before it is compared to anything. Nothing on this page is for sale. Shops are typically asking $15 to $28 per head, median $21, across 21 shops surveyed on 2026-10-19; the full sweep ran $5 to $87. Asking prices are what sellers want, not what buyers paid. On 2026-10-19 it was in stock at 21 surveyed shops: boomcorals.com, coralexplorers.com, coralsanonymous.com, coralstop.com, cornbredcorals.com, deepreef.net, and 15 more.