Candy Coral

Question for everyone. When i got the candy coral it looked like the first pic and now looks like the second. Water quality is great i do a 15% water change every 2 weeks. And feed it once a week. It was recently under heavier flow and i just moved it to a lower flow area. What should i do? Should i be feeding it more?

 

mine like lower flow on it. moderate lighting.. same purple w/ green eyes

 

Ya the lighting was less intense and lower flow before and now higher lighting and heavier flow. So ill go back to the start i suppose Thanks all

 

I have PC's and mine like being up half way in the tank (in a 24g nano)
I feed mine weekly with oyster feast and mysis shrimp.

 

Dunno much about candy canes but... What kind of camera/lens do you use? That first pic is pretty nice.

 

How do you feed your Candie Corals ? I use a liquid diet on mine is this correct ? Also i feed my fish on mysis, so will my candie grab some of thius from the fish ?

Thanks

Sean

 

A liquid diet is perfect, oyster feast, marine snow,....any of those liquid ones will be just fine. As for it "grabbing" mysis from the fish, they wont, but you might get a small particle that will fall on the candy cane and it may eat it.

I feed everything in my tank a mixture of oyster feast and mysis shrimp, if the fish are hungry enough, they will pick it off the corals. If the corals eat it - great - if not well then they are getting oyster feast.

 

Sorry such a late reply. I uses a simple kodak 6mp point and click camera on a closeup mode. For lights i have a dual 36" coralife compac with a 39w daylight 10000k bulb and a 39w actinic in a 33 gallon setup and have had this lighting since i got the candy about 3 months ago

 

so how those canes doing now? low flow and medium light? do u keep your calcium 400-500 range?

 

Doing better calcium is 450 and i relocated to the bottom of the tank. Its not back to where it was but i do see an improvment. Thanks for asking