Candy Cane / Trumpet coral growth

JeF4y

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I've had a 3 head piece of Candycane & a 3 head piece of Trumpet coral for 5 months now, and despite fantastic polyp growth, there are no new heads. What gives? Do these heads split, or do new ones grow from the stalk? Anything special I can do or am I just stuck in the waiting game?
 
yea....when you see the new head/mouth
it means is splitting, but different coral different speed ....
zoa, zinnia can be fast as hell
but LPS, SPS are pretty slow....
 
Great info. Thanks...

I have a frogspawn that went from 2 heads to 6 pretty quick, and a Sun colony that has easily doubled in 5 months. As well as a colony of Zoa's that has gone up/down like Oprah over a few months, but is now back to the 'big' Oprah. LOL... Just didn't know what the deal was with these other two.
 
candy canes love calcium if ur calcium is at an adequate level 420-440 they will grow quick mine starter 2ith 4 polyps 2 years later i have more than 75-80 polyps and i have fragged it some.
 
<a href=showthread.php?s=&postid=15680207#post15680207 target=_blank>Originally posted</a> by philipchan
my Zinnia grow up on the glass and climbing up now, lol

sorry, you gave me a chuckle :D a zinnia is a flower, i think you're referring to xenia.
 
I keep my Ca and Alk up and my candycane grows like mad. I started with 3 heads and now have 20 or so. It took about 9 months, maybe less, for this to happen. They've even survived a copper incident and a 90* tank incident during that time. Mine like to be lower in the tank too. I get happier coral when it's down low
 
I have mine in the bottom 1/3 of the tank, but having a biocube, the lighting isn't that strong to begin with. For placement, I think they're doing very well. Their heads inflate 1" on the small ones and 1.5" on the larger which is so much larger than they have ever inflated. CA/Alk/Mg are good. Think I'll just keep spot feeding and continue to wait =)
 
My neon and teal candy canes split and form new heads very quickly. My green and red has a ton of mouths and refuses to actually split the heads, it's pinching in around the mouths but has yet to connect the pinches.
 
question: i just got a nice sized candy cane coral and i use extremely high calcium salt. its like at 580. is this good or bad for the candy cane coral? (my alk stays close to 10 btw)
 
<a href=showthread.php?s=&postid=15694718#post15694718 target=_blank>Originally posted</a> by 100%hydrophylic
question: i just got a nice sized candy cane coral and i use extremely high calcium salt. its like at 580. is this good or bad for the candy cane coral? (my alk stays close to 10 btw)

What are your magnesium levels to hold calcium that high? I'm no chemist/biologist, but I'm guessing they would have to be insanely high to keep that much calcium in solution over precipitating.

Personally, everything I've read would be against a calcium level that high, so I'd rethink the salt I used...
 
its oceanic salt and so far everythings doing fine.... but idk. kinda worried from reading what people have to say about it. my candies look full about 75% if the time.
 
Feed them and provide good calcium and they will go crazy, I had heads that were splitting that would be splitting again before they finished the first split.
 
my candy cane has 4 heads (one looks like it's about to die :(. ) but then 2 look like they are about to split, I can actually see one of the two starting to section off. and same with my frogspawn, it had one head that was splitting when i bought it, now one of the 2 heads is splitting, and it is the only lps coral I don't feed (well it doesn't like the food I feed.)
 
Also I noticed very slow growth for the first 2 months of my tanks life, and one of my professors at FSU (marine bio/ecology PhD) suggested to add calcium. Stupidly i did so until i noticed quick growth, I mean sps and lps are growing like weeks, finally I borrowed one of the school's test kits and read calcium at 575. idk what my magnesium is nor my alk, but I do know everything is growing fast, and is open almost 24 hours a day. Professor says if it works leave it, so I'm letting the calcium deplete now until i even think about dosing again, but remember what works for my tank may kill your tank and that goes the other way.
 
Just my two cents, but an observation from someone fairly new to the hobby. I've only been on the salt side for about 6 months now, but here is what i've noticed through the ups and downs of my tank. It is by no means "clean" yet as far as perfect water quality, yet my first lps, a duncan, grew two more heads in a month. My second piece, a frogspawn, i recently fragged as it started growing 5 more heads, two small ones are starting to come out of the main head as well. After these, i added an acan, some more zoas, some sps, two torches, and i had a leather in there i almost forgot to mention. About this time i had an issue with ich and after a few different trap attempts, i had to pull the tank apart to get the fish out into the quarantine tank. I put everything back together, removed the artificial decorations and added two more pieces of bleached rock. I also add phytoplankton to the tank a few times a week. I think after the change i had what was a planton bloom, i don't think it was bacterial as the water had a green tinge to it. i could see about 3 inches into the tank, but i let it handle itself. after about 2 weeks it cleared, my duncan growth caught me off guard. The leather grew about 1.5x its original size, the acan is sprouting 5 new heads, i got about a 1/4 or so growth on the green stag from two of its branches, and a few new zoa heads popped up, and the kenyan tree i had all but forgot about as it shed all its branches and looked like a ball, had about an inch of growth. Now i'm not saying cause a bloom, or do anything like what happened to me as i'm new, and it was a screwup on my part. my point of this is, and i hear it both ways, but you also read people are obsessed with zero water, i'm leaning towards the side of yes, keep the water decent, but a little dirt in there for them to feed i found better results with. just my opinion. Also, as for the base readings in my tank, dkh is 11.8, calc is 440, and mag is at 1360.
 
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