Candycane placement

[Webmanny]

The issue with Candy cane is that placement depends greatly on the type and intensity of your light. I grow mine with great success on the sand, but I have one head that broke away one day I was cleaning and I placed it behind a bunch of rocks on the back of the tank and I now have 5 heads there.

I would use this list for placement and move it down or up according to how you see it perform.

http://www.drsfostersmith.com/Media/PDF/EcoxoticCoralPlanningMap.pdf

This is mine under my DIY T5/LED hybrid. If you look close, you can see that the heads facing to the sides, are more inflated. This tells me that they are stretching a bit to get more light. I can't go further down and I won't, since they are doing fine, but this should give you an idea of what to look for.

 

[frankyrivera]

I have mine about 12" from the top and it looks like this I don't even feed it just leave it still it will be ok

I just realized I posted that in 2012 wow it was tiny you should see it now still in the same spot just larger

 

[sde1500]

I just realized I posted that in 2012 wow it was tiny you should see it now still in the same spot just larger

sooo.....lets see it! haha

 

[YogiKR49]

Webmanny - that's an awesome link! Thanks very much!

 

[micgloth18]

how long does it take for them to start to grow new heads. I have one in the bottom of my 29 biocube. Its been there for probably 5 months and hasn't grown anything. Seems happy is puffy and eats when spot feed but still hasn't grown any new heads. Just curious as to how long it takes to see growth. I keep my mag and calcium in check and i spot feed it 2 to 3 times a week

 

[frankyrivera]

sooo.....lets see it! haha

Here she is now

 

[sde1500]

oh dang, that is awesome haha. I want one now, they never really did it for me before, but a huge colony like that looks pretty sweet.

 

[frankyrivera]

Lol yeah she's the reason I upgraded to a 180. She outgrew the 75 lol

 

[North Borders]

That's like a small forest! Do you target feed your candy cane bush?

 

[frankyrivera]

I used to in the beginning but they I got lazy and stopped. It just exploded in growth

 

[Dkuhlmann]

So you're saying that they exploded in growth by not feeding them?

 

[frankyrivera]

I think they exploded in growth when my calcium was off and I tested it was like 600. But I could be wrong. I wouldn't recomended increase calcium that high as other things weren't happy. But it seemed to take off after that. Could be all coincidental too