{"id":222,"date":"2013-11-29T04:53:30","date_gmt":"2013-11-29T04:53:30","guid":{"rendered":"\/?p=222"},"modified":"2014-07-12T22:45:47","modified_gmt":"2014-07-13T02:45:47","slug":"duncan-coral","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"\/2013\/11\/29\/duncan-coral\/","title":{"rendered":"Duncan Coral"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>Duncanopsammia axifuga<\/em> is a large polyp stony coral that comes from the waters around Australia.<br \/>\n<!--more--><br \/>\n<div id=\"attachment_220\" style=\"width: 1162px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/Duncan.jpg\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-220\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-220\" alt=\"Picture of a Duncan coral.\" src=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/Duncan.jpg\" width=\"1152\" height=\"648\" srcset=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/Duncan.jpg 1152w, \/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/Duncan-300x168.jpg 300w, \/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/Duncan-1024x576.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1152px) 100vw, 1152px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-220\" class=\"wp-caption-text\"><em>Duncanopsammia axifuga<\/em> from my reef tank.<\/p><\/div><\/p>\n<p>Duncan corals do need strong light since they are photosynthetic but not nearly as strong a light as small polyped stony corals. They also need to eat some plankton on a regular basis. Otherwise they can be hardy and beautiful aquarium inhabitants.<\/p>\n<p>Unfortunately the specimen shown in the picture has died during a long <a href=\"\/2014\/01\/22\/the-aftermath-of-the-december-2013-power-blackouts-in-toronto\/\" title=\"The Aftermath of the December 2013 Power Blackouts in Toronto\">power blackout<\/a>.<\/p>\n<h4 class=\"further-readings-title\">Further Readings:<\/h4>\n<div class=\"further-readings\">\nA <a title=\"Duncanopsammia axifuga\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Duncanopsammia_axifuga\" target=\"_blank\"><em>Duncanopsammia axifuga<\/em><\/a> on Wikipedia.<br \/>\n\n<\/div>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Duncanopsammia axifuga is a large polyp stony coral that comes from the waters around Australia.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":221,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[16],"tags":[65,12,30,18,31,43],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/teleonomix.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/222"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/teleonomix.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/teleonomix.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/teleonomix.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/teleonomix.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=222"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/teleonomix.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/222\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/teleonomix.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/221"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/teleonomix.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=222"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/teleonomix.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=222"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/teleonomix.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=222"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}