Please Help!!!

[swannyson7]

I had a blip in the power yesterday, which screwed up the digital timer for my lights. Instead of shutting off at 10 PM like they usually, do, they were still on when I woke up at 4:00 AM and saw the ominous glow shining into my bedroom. All of the corals seemed to be ok with the exception of my candy cane. I have a softball sized candy cane and all of the heads facing toward the light seem to be down to the skeleton around the mouths. The red tissue still remains, but the neon green tissue has just about disintegrated. Is there any chance of saving these, or should i start fragging the heads that survived to prevent any spikes as they die off? I'll post pics tomorrow, as the lights are off at the moment. Please help!!!

 

[seafansar]

Weird. I wouldn't think leaving the lights on would hurt anything. Is there any brown jelly visible? Does the tissue come off the skeleton easily? If it looks like brown jelly, I would start fragging. But if not, I'd leave it be. One of my fish ate all the tissue out of the center of my candy canes. I moved the coral to another tank and it recovered just fine.

 

[919]

They will bounce back... Just keep an eye on it, and make sure it does not happen again.

 

[919]

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[swannyson7]

No brown jelly. A little bit of cyano seems to always grow between the heads, but that's about it. It's been there for about a year, so I know it's not an infection, just cyano

 

[Michael]

the lights being left on for the extra period of time will not be the reason for the candy cane looking poor in health, the reason is most probably water params, even though i think they are quite hardy they still like good params, you may have some phos in the system and it could be making it the way it is