prestage3ek
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Like my topic says, what do you guys supliment your candy cane coral with. On the DrsF&S website it says they like brine shrimp and micro-plankton? Im new to the hobby so any help is much appreciated.
what to supliment candy cane coral with?
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vessxpress1
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If you have good lighting, they really don't need to be fed. But if you really want to, you can thaw out any type of small, frozen food such as plankton, mysis, brine, whatever and feed them that. You'll have to wait until after your lights have been out a while or do it early in the morning. They mainly extend their sweepers at night. This is your best chance to give each head a piece of food if you're going to do it. When the tentacles are out the furthest. Keep the food small though, and keep in mind crabs, shrimp, etc.. will quickly rip the food out of them before the coral can ingest it.
Once it's used to getting food, if you can hold food near it during the day, so they sense it, without something taking it, you can sometimes coax the tentacles out. Keep in mind if you happen to touch any of it with the feeding tool or your fingers, the tentacles will retract and it's not going to eat. You can only touch the food to them. I've found it can be sort of tricky.
I like feeding mine. They're one of the neatest things to watch eat. They swell up quite a bit in order to ingest the food.
Once it's used to getting food, if you can hold food near it during the day, so they sense it, without something taking it, you can sometimes coax the tentacles out. Keep in mind if you happen to touch any of it with the feeding tool or your fingers, the tentacles will retract and it's not going to eat. You can only touch the food to them. I've found it can be sort of tricky.
I like feeding mine. They're one of the neatest things to watch eat. They swell up quite a bit in order to ingest the food.
prestage3ek
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so no type of liquid food that you can add to help them in any way?
musty baby
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In my experience they grow extremely well without feeding, to the point that I quit feeding them entirely because I didn't want to deal with a huge colony.
I wouldn't add any non-targeted foods for the candy canes. If you'd like to supplement their diet, spot feed them once in a while with mysis, brine, or cyclopeeze.
I wouldn't add any non-targeted foods for the candy canes. If you'd like to supplement their diet, spot feed them once in a while with mysis, brine, or cyclopeeze.
GobyJohnKenobi
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My tank has sort of turned into a hospital for recovering trumpets.
I target feed each mouth a mysis shrimp once or twice a week before a water change. I do this until the polyps have tissue covering the stalks again or they develop too many mouths.
The more you feed them, the more mouths they will develop. You will need to keep your calcium levels up so they can develop the skeleton for those new polyps. I'm not the greatest at that, so I have some polyps with 6 mouths. LOL No shrimp for you! LOL
I target feed each mouth a mysis shrimp once or twice a week before a water change. I do this until the polyps have tissue covering the stalks again or they develop too many mouths.
The more you feed them, the more mouths they will develop. You will need to keep your calcium levels up so they can develop the skeleton for those new polyps. I'm not the greatest at that, so I have some polyps with 6 mouths. LOL No shrimp for you! LOL
GobyJohnKenobi
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I forgot to mention that I wear a glove and spot feed with a pair of forceps. Mine also like Spectrum Thera-A pellets. I'll crush a small pellet with the forceps over a polyp and it sucks it right in, day or night.
They are eating me out of house and home, BTW.
They are eating me out of house and home, BTW.
musty baby
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GobyJohnKenobi, you might look into getting a small syringe, 3-5 ml, the type with the screw-on needles. If you're halfway careful it's just as effective (by that I mean no free-floating mysis in your water column) as feeding with forceps and it is far, far easier. You can get them at a pharmacy, should save you some effort. I used to feed with tweezers and know what a tedious PITA it can be.
