Questions about a candy cane frag
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abulgin
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This coral grows through the division of polyps. Yours look good. Make sure you feed each polyp with some mysis soaked in Selcon using a turkey baster or some similar small meaty seafood.
If this is your only coral, weekly water changes should provide enough trace elements. If you have a few or more stoney corals, you'll definitely want to test for calcium, alkalinity and magnesium. Those really are the only 3 things you need to watch and, when necessary, dose.
If this is your only coral, weekly water changes should provide enough trace elements. If you have a few or more stoney corals, you'll definitely want to test for calcium, alkalinity and magnesium. Those really are the only 3 things you need to watch and, when necessary, dose.
abulgin
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The polyps will slowly split and then the arm will thicken and create a new branch as the polyp becomes two. Ultimately, it will fill out and you'll wonder how it happened, but if you watch it closely and for long enough you'll notice how this thing splits.
Candy canes have nice feeder tenticles that mostly come out at night. If you don't see them on yours, you'll need to train it by basting the polyps with a slurry of small food like Cyclop-Eeze (which is a great food by itself). Then, once it starts to show tenticles regularly, you'll want to feed each polyp once or twice per week. You definitely need to feed candy canes or they will starve.
As for your other corals, you have a pretty noxious mix of softies and polyps. Generally, you want to stick with either softies or stick with LPS and
SPS, but mixing the two can be trouble. Leathers are especially noxious, and they, along with shrooms and zoas, can wreak havoc on sensitive corals and anemones.. Make sure you're running lots of carbon and changing it regularly.
It's hard to post using a blackberry. I have a lot of experience with candy canes and keeping them under various conditions. I'd be happy to continue this/answer more questions when I'm sitting in front of a computer.
Candy canes have nice feeder tenticles that mostly come out at night. If you don't see them on yours, you'll need to train it by basting the polyps with a slurry of small food like Cyclop-Eeze (which is a great food by itself). Then, once it starts to show tenticles regularly, you'll want to feed each polyp once or twice per week. You definitely need to feed candy canes or they will starve.
As for your other corals, you have a pretty noxious mix of softies and polyps. Generally, you want to stick with either softies or stick with LPS and
SPS, but mixing the two can be trouble. Leathers are especially noxious, and they, along with shrooms and zoas, can wreak havoc on sensitive corals and anemones.. Make sure you're running lots of carbon and changing it regularly.
It's hard to post using a blackberry. I have a lot of experience with candy canes and keeping them under various conditions. I'd be happy to continue this/answer more questions when I'm sitting in front of a computer.
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abulgin
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Here's a picture of one of my candy canes. If you look closely, you can see that the polyp on the far left is splitting into 3 polyps, and the polyp on the far right is moving towards splitting into 2.
If you look even closer, you'll see some feeder tentacles. At night, these are very pronounced, sticking straight up.
If you look even closer, you'll see some feeder tentacles. At night, these are very pronounced, sticking straight up.
Stanley-Reefer
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Yep--see how each "head" has one "mouth" in your pic? Keep watching and over time there will me many more!
I picked up a small frag of brown/greens that had 3 mouths and now it has 9--in a year's time.
I picked up a small frag of brown/greens that had 3 mouths and now it has 9--in a year's time.
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