Candy Cane Growth

[yeldarbj]

I recently bought a 3 headed candy cane frag. I was just wondering how they grow and expand. Does each head eventually develop a second mouth and split into 2 heads? I ask because it looks like that is what mine is trying to do. Or does in grow new heads from the base like a zoanthid?

Thanks

 

[theop]

Each head splits it's mouth and they gradually grow apart into separate heads. Sometimes they will do a 3-way split.

Euphyllia will also split this way but will also sometimes send out a new head from the base. I don't know if calaustrea will do this or not.

 

[Ti]

Ditto on the splitting

 

[reeferman06]

I bought a frag with 3 heads on it 2 years ago for 6 $8, now its has about 17 head, it actualy started splitting after about a month.

 

[michaeldaly]

I baught a frag with about 12 heads on it 10 months ago now it has over 30

 

[3jlt]

what do you feed them?

what do you feed them?

recently purchased a frag with 8 heads. At night when our lights go out it opens and the "tentacles" expand out. Just want to make sure this is normal and that they are not hungry. Should I feed them at all/anything in particular? Any advice would be helpful.

 

[dustin323]

Re: what do you feed them?

Re: what do you feed them?

<a href=showthread.php?s=&postid=8755345#post8755345 target=_blank>Originally posted</a> by 3jlt
recently purchased a frag with 8 heads. At night when our lights go out it opens and the "tentacles" expand out. Just want to make sure this is normal and that they are not hungry. Should I feed them at all/anything in particular? Any advice would be helpful.

You don't have to feed them I don't believe. Though I feed mine about twice a week with mysid shrimp. I have a little syringe & squirt them at their feeder tentacles.

 

[theop]

In my experience, LPS corals do better if you feed them occasionally. Since they are able to take food, why not? It definately makes them grow/split faster.

I feed my candy canes mysid shrimp and zooplankton (cyclopeeze) about once a week at night when they have the feeder tentacles out.

 

[michaeldaly]

I probably feed mine once per month because it's tentacles only come out in complete darkness and I run my moonlights till 12 it is rather a hastle to feed my tank at 1am.

 

[theop]

I bet that if you put a little food on them when the moonlights are on then they will open up and put out feeders.

 

[michaeldaly]

<a href=showthread.php?s=&postid=8758252#post8758252 target=_blank>Originally posted</a> by theop
I bet that if you put a little food on them when the moonlights are on then they will open up and put out feeders.

I have tried that but it just does not work with my candycanes. I can get most of my other lps like globlet corals etc to feed in the day.

 

[dc_909]

I just let the mysis sit in a net inside the tank for a few minutes and my candies and acans send out their feeders and then I feed them.