Candy Cane

[firsthesitation]

Anybody know what would kill a Candy Cane in 2 hours? I bought 2 different frags from a local guy and after acclimating them and placing them into the tank they shrink up, loose their color and "die'. In his tank they were doing great, fully opened the meaty part of the coral was very red and its really making me mad since its supposed to be one of the easiest corals to keep.....all my other stock is doing awesome so I'm a little lost here, anybody?

Current stock
Branching Frogspawn
Waving Hand Xenia
Blue and Red Mushrooms
Toadstool Leather
Tree Leather
1 large rock with 3 different types of zoo's
Green Star Polyps
Red Acropora
Blue Clove Polyps
Colt Leather

I'll try and take a picture of the one I have now when I get home for ya guys but I doubt it will help, its just the skeleton really....

I tested my water parameters yesterday after I woke up and it was mostly dead and everything is testing fine. I have 6x54watt T-5's and a 75 gallon tank.....I tried changing the placement on it from about halfway up my rock work to the sand bed too and no change....

 

[kawicivic]

you have some leathers in there.... was the candy cane too close? leathers are messy corals. I wouldn't say that a candy cane is an easy coral to keep.... not difficult either though. I would say look into the toxins from the leahers, your acclimation procedure, or differences between your two systems.

 

[fierceseaman]

huge swings in water parameters? differences between your systems that you aren't or can't test for? for my money I'd bet a difference in tank parameters, maybe even a huge swing in salinity? you might want to acclimate for a longer time.

 

[thecichlidpleco]

I can never seem to keep candy canes, but their placement is always by some sort of leather. Acclimation is most likely not the issue, you could warm to same temp and just throw in the tank, I know people who have done this and have never lost anything.