Candy Cane not growing!!!!!

[beamer]

My candy came hasn't grown since I got it like 2 months ago... Everything seems fine and all my other corals are doing great. What could be the problem or what should I feed it. All I use is coral frenzy. Should I take it off the frag thing an place it on a rock? I'm lost

[Troy Valentine]

How is your polyp extension? How old is the system?

[tebstan]

LPS can be slow growers in some tanks. How are your calcium levels? Coral frenzy is pretty small for that polyp size, you could try target feeding the mouths with something bigger like mysis. After offering food a few times, it should respond with some feed tentacles pretty readily. Still need calcium to grow, though.

[beamer]

System about 3 yrs old and can I use a turkey Bastet for that. But when do I feed?

[alton]

They do the best for me when the Nitrates are between 2 and 5ppm. Do not have to compete against a bunch of other LPS, and do not get a ton of water flow, just a gentle water movement. The fact it has not died or receded is a good thing. I have one here in my office tank and it sat there for a year doing nothing but competing for space with SPS, I moved it up higher on the rocks to more lighting and it has taken off.

[allan]

Uh, what kind of candy cane?

I've got teal and neon green. The former grows crazy fast with or without feeding. The latter grows so slow that I doubt a difference can be seen in two months. I've had my neons since B&B closed shop, the teals a short time before that. The teals (originally six heads) grew into two monster colonies (half the size of a soccer ball?) and the neons are two small (half the size of a softball?) mini colonies. Happened so slow that I wasn't aware of it.

The teals are ready feeders, typically extending their polyps at night although they will, and do quite often, extend during the day.

The neon will extend (IME) only at night, and it isn't that apparent. You can definitely tell that the polyps are out but compared to the display of PE by the teals... Well, you just have to keep an eye out.

I recently happened upon another trumpet that's a bit of a duller version of the neons, and it seems to grow a bit quicker.

Calcium is important. So is feeding regularly. But not all trumpets grow as quickly as others.

[Scutterborn]

The teal candy canes I got from Allan almost always have full polyp extension. Day or night. The kryrptos have very little.


- Ben -

[Mr Cob]

if it's the bright neon yellow/green aka Kryptonite Candycane I have found that they do best in heavy direct light and feed chunks anytime day or night

[beamer]

How can I put pix on here to show you? I'm using an iPhone.

[beamer]

They are like neon green.. No growth....

[Scutterborn]

The really bright green ones are slow growers. Really slow.


- Ben -

[beamer]

Are u serious!!! :/ well that sux

[Scutterborn]

Sorry, bro. Its always gotta be the one you want most to grow that does it the slowest! Lol. :)


-Ben-

[allan]

That, I believe, is why the neons are more expensive than the teals.

Dude, you using the iPhone app called tapatalk? If so there's a button at the bottome, one looks like a camera (to take pictures) and another that looks like a picture (to load from your library).

When you load it save it to "this forum" instead of "tapatalk hosted" which leaves the quite small. I always check the medium.

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From my library, I think you get three choices of you load using your camera.

[Scutterborn]

These are kryrptos I'm rehabbing.

http://img.tapatalk.com/a6937b9f-fe4c-9a08.jpg

These are the more common teal.

http://img.tapatalk.com/4245386e-fe85-d882.jpg


- Ben -

[Scutterborn]

Allan, I just uploaded the pics with both versions and seemed to get better results with the "tapatalk hosted". The pic was bigger. Of course once you load 20 pics that way you gotta pay 1.99 to get unlimited uploads...

Everybody's gotta make a buck.


- Ben -

[allan]

Lately when I load via tapatalk the picture is more of a thumbnail. Maybe I went over my limit?