Candy Cane Is This What They Look Like?

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emeralcrab

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I bought this candy cane over the net, got it last week on Friday. Does this type not open up? At night it has little feeder tenicles coming out, but I thought they opened up some also. I seen other pictures of these and they look open. :notsure: Are there different species of candy canes? I hope this one opens, I am a little disappointed at what it looks like.
P.S. the jar is just to hold it up until I know it is ok and then I will find a place for it. Oh and water is all good, at least it was yesterday morning when did a check. I do 10% changes weekly and everything else is GREAT in there right now.
 
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emeralcrab

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Photo is just dark, do these open up? PH 8.2 Salinity 1.025 - 1.026 is what I try and keep it at. Haven't check alk, but normally that is fine. I will move it up on top of a rock tonight and see if light will change it. I thought these were medium light?
The feeder tenicles come out at night.
 
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lbaskball

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In my opinion, it looks stressed, dont worry, put in where there is moderate flow, it will swell up and look nicely like the person who posted the picture above. Make sure its getting good light. Its proabbly getting used to the water. Mine didnt swell up until couple of days. As long as its getting light, and your water qualty is good, it will swell up nicely.
 
mopar9012

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im sorry for high jacking but it looks like theres some people in this thread that know about cany corals. I have one that has thorn like things on the stem... anyone have an idea on what they are?
 
reckler

reckler

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Originally Posted by EmeralCrab
Photo is just dark, do these open up? PH 8.2 Salinity 1.025 - 1.026 is what I try and keep it at. Haven't check alk, but normally that is fine. I will move it up on top of a rock tonight and see if light will change it. I thought these were medium light?
The feeder tenicles come out at night.
It took about a week for mine to open up after I got them. I have the same candy as you. I think they will need a little time to adjust to your tank. mine look real good now.
 
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emeralcrab

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Thanks, I will be patient. They are under 325watts of pc lighting. On a 55g. Should be enough? Everything else is doing good. I have 260W coralite over all of the tank and then over half is another 65W and that half is where the candy cane is. All lights are new.
Thanks all. I still have a week of guarentee on them so hope they open soon.
Mean while I research some more on them and wait.
 
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emeralcrab

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Well tonight after the lights went off and the lunar lights came on, it instantly puts out its little tenacles, looks all fuzzy, but still doesn't puff up during the day. :notsure:
Maybe its just being shy....
 
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emeralcrab

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Well the little bugger still only puts its tentacles out at night. Here is a picture of it. All of the heads do this, but still doesn't puff up during the day. The little mouths will be open and closed through out the day, but doesn't puff up. I've had it two weeks now. Any idea's? :notsure: Water test are all 0, I test everyother day right now just to make sure everything is fine.
Still have it in a jar so that I can move it easier if needed.

 
candycane

candycane

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Feed it. Every book that I have read says that they can take up 6+ weeks to open fully. Tempermental or something, I don't know. I used to keep a lot of them.
 
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emeralcrab

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Thanks, it is really bugging me, at least I know that it is alive. It seems like each night it comes out more and for longer.
 
candycane

candycane

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They are just "in" from what I see. The skeletal structure looks like it may be a toothed candy cane. But the front of the image looks like mucus covering it, then when you look at the top you see that it looks like feeding time for the thing. They receed pretty quickly also in my experience. You might want to try just continually feeding at night when it looks like it does. However my only concern is the lower part of the skeleton looks like it may have some diatoms on it. Other then that it just looks like it came out of a bag 4-5 days ago.
 
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emeralcrab

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Thanks CandyCane, I think what your seeing is algae on the glass, I have to scrape it off yet.
I am going to move it to the middle of the tank and see if a little more light will help it open, then tonight I will try spot feeding it, it sends out its tentacles as soon as the lights go off and leave them open for maybe and hour at the most. What do you suggest? The only thing I have right now is Kent Micro-Vert. So will try that.
Boy these corals can give a person gray hair....wrinkles....ulcers.....their worse then mine son ever was

I have a beautiful octo-frogspawn and my urchin walked over its top heads, now one head doesn't look very good. If he killed that head I may have to rethink the urchin. :mad:
 
candycane

candycane

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I would always rethink urchins. Every single one that I have studied, doesnt seem to control algae at a very high level at all. If anything they are just annoying. They will try to pick up everything from snails to corals to thermometers to carry around on their back. Sometime injuring the animal or coral in the process. It may have done THAT with your frogspawn also. I spent a week watching an Urchin trying to find the algae that was on it's back. Once they get past a certain size, they topple stuff over also.
However diatoms should not be present in your tank. They are there 99% of the time because of excessive levels of nitrate. You can feed it what you want to feed it. They are primarily filter feeders though, meaning that they prefer small (micron size) particles of food. As you know by now though, most corals are more prolific eaters at night.
 
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emeralcrab

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I checked it two days ago and it was 420.....but I don't check it often as I do weekly water changes so I wouldn't have to add stuff. I don't have an awful lot of corals yet.
And the silly urchin we had from the beginning, before I decided to do corals. He is a long spiney one, never picks up anything just roams around the tank. So far I haven't noticed him doing anything except eat all my coraline algae. He might just have to go back to the LFS, I don't know if he would make it in my 150g with the huma huma. The picture of him is from about 5 months ago. He is even bigger now.
Anyone want a URCHIN?
 
candycane

candycane

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Yeah the trigger might take him out. Just urchins tend to knock stuff over when they get bigger. It's a nice looking urchin though.
 
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