Candycane coral?

dmh41532

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I have a coral I purchased several months ago, the local fish store said it was a blastomussa. After some reasearch, it looks more like a candycane coral. There are two polyps. At night the deflate to the skeleton. Shortly after the lights are on the inflate to many times the size. The polyps are all one color. There are no feeding or sweeper tenticles. I do not feed it becuase it dosen't eat. It looks like a candycane or a trumpet coral, but with out the feeding and sweeper tenticles. It seems to be doing okay. I have had it for about six months. I can post pictures after my camera charges.
 
They're kind of hard to confuse. Here is a pic of my candy cane:

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Blasto will be more "adherent" to it's base, if that makes sense.
 
Mine actually never deflates.......................In the night time, when the main lights are off all the feeder tentacles come out further. During the rest of the time it is visible. Mine is slightly larger than a baseball. Where have you placed yours
 
There are no tenticles at all. I have it placed in the sand bed. My aquarium is 20 gallons long, 12 inches deep with a 1.5 inch sand bed. 100 watt t-5.
 
I fed the coral this morning and the smaller polyp ate a piece of brine shrimp. That was the first it ate in a while. The skeleton is maybe three inches long. I've searched and searched for a good photo, I haven't been successful in uploading one yet. Does anyone know of a similar coral with out feeding tenticles? It seems to be a very peaceful coral.
 
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This is the best photo I could find. It was taken shortly after the lights turned on one morning. With in a few hours the polyps inflate to where they touch.
 

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That's what I was thinking, yet it dosen't show feeding or sweeper tenticles like I read.

Trumpets and candy canes both have short tentacles capable of harvesting the water column for food...least mine do. I see this when I blast the tank with some phyto, cyclopeeze or oyster feast.
 
I have never seen tenticles from it, at night, both polyps deflate. when I feed it, the mouth opens the food is eaten, but only the smaller one eats about once a month. The coral is in the sand bed in a low flow area and seems to be doing well. I just want to be sure I know what coral it is so I can properly care for it
 
To be honest, I've colonies that are probably 7 years old and I've never fed them. That's not to say they don't catch their own food since they're in a well established 105 with tons of rocks and lots of critters/pods.

They constantly need to be fragged to keep them in check. Otherwise, they just eventually shade out the lower sections of the colony and encroach onto other corals.
 
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