Please ID these new dark purple growth

[jchakraborty]

Please ID these new dark purple growth all across my neon candy and other areas in my. They are evenon the rocks with Zoas.

 

[Go.Fish]

I see a bunch of vermetid snails, are those what you're referring to? They could be why your candy cane isn't doing so well, they cast a mucous net out that bothers most corals. I scrape them off whenever possible or plug their tubes with glue

 

[sticky polyps]

+1^

 

[Fishmaster13]

^ that's probably the issue