is my 3 hour old candy cane already done for?

[Lizz]

okay so i got a shipment of corals this morning (ordered from this vendor previously with good results/no complaints), including a candy cane coral.

 

i acclimated them according to instructions and then put them all through a dip in coral revive and placed them in the tank (low).

 

the other corals are already doing pretty well and opening up but the candy cane immediately started "shedding". within a couple of hours, all of the soft tissue detached itself and floated away. it was pearlescent white with a neon-ish green tinge.

 

will this soft tissue regenerate or did i manage to kill a coral for the first time?

[clownfitch]

A picture would help. Candy cane coral puts off an extreme amount of slime when it is unhappy. Hopefully that is all it is and not polyp bail out. Is there only skeleton left?

[Lizz]

sure thing! here is a photo of it right now:

 

sorry if this is anything obvious...this is my first saltwater tank so obviously i'm new at this and don't know whats what yet!

 

 

here is some of the tissue/slime stuck on another frag:

will it hurt this coral/does it need to be removed?

 

and lastly, another coral that arrived at the same time/went through the exact same process doing well and looking happy so i know i didn't do something horribly wrong:

 

 

thanks in advance for any help/advice!

[k4ndyk1ng]

Is it getting too much/little flow?

[markalot]

It's fine, I can see the skin still on the skeleton. It will take a week or so to look healthy again, in my experience.

[Lizz]

i have it in the lowest 3rd of the tank with moderate flow...not in direct line of a pump or anything though.

It's fine, I can see the skin still on the skeleton. It will take a week or so to look healthy again, in my experience.

 

thank you! i hope you are right. i'll be sure to update this thread in a week or two with a new photo and hopefully it will look better then!

[Leatherneck3755]

Whenever I brush against mine the green rubs off. Usually back in a day or two. Mine is high in the tank and replicating like crazy. Started with three heads. Fast forward three months and I have almost eight!!! No harm in tying. Good luck!!!!!!!

[markalot]

Whenever I brush against mine the green rubs off. Usually back in a day or two. Mine is high in the tank and replicating like crazy. Started with three heads. Fast forward three months and I have almost eight!!! No harm in tying. Good luck!!!!!!!

 

 

Yea, I have no found flow they did not like but I keep these in a neglected tank and haven't moved them around a lot. I have a colony of bluish head trumpets that reproduced like crazy laying in a sandbed in a 20 gallon long but now mounted mid tank in a 29 gallon aren't reproducing. So I agree, once they look better start moving them to higher light and see what happens.

[atrox]

It's only been in you're tank for three hours after shipping? If that's the case this is perfectly normal and could take days to start any polyp expansion. Give it time, shipping is stressful to corals. Corals slime when jacked with its defensive and nothing to worry about.

[Lizz]

It's only been in you're tank for three hours after shipping? If that's the case this is perfectly normal and could take days to start any polyp expansion. Give it time, shipping is stressful to corals. Corals slime when jacked with its defensive and nothing to worry about.

 

yeah i mean, i wasn't expecting it to look great right away it was just all the stringy white tissue that detached from it that made me concerned that it was something more that normal adjustment/being mad..

[Mr. Microscope]

just looks stressed to me. should be fine

[BulkRate]

As long as a brown jelly infection hasn't set in (you'd know) caulastrea can bounce back from far worse. So long as there's any tissue in the center of the head & a mouth attached it can regenerate in a surprisingly short time.

 

The one you've pictured is severely stressed, either due to a sudden parameter swing (salinity/alkalinity due to an insufficient acclimation time or just plain wide difference) or more likely just a rough shipping experience. But it doesn't show signs of "bailing out" - just a lot of retraction and a trace of skeleton.

 

Where you've placed it for now is nearly ideal for "new"... just let it be for a couple of days to settle in.

[Lizz]

hi all, here's an update as promised....a week later and i think this coral is looking much better!

 

not 100%, but still a significant improvement!

[hey]

If you want to see them puff up at night look at them after the lights are off and if you see feeder tentacles give em some small mysis pieces. The next day they should be very happy looking.

[Lizz]

If you want to see them puff up at night look at them after the lights are off and if you see feeder tentacles give em some small mysis pieces. The next day they should be very happy looking.

 

i do see tentacles after the lights go out.....i'll give that a try tonight!

[Mariaface]

My candy canes love to drive me insane. The hammer coral will sit there, just peachy, loving life regardless of any little change. The candy canes will decide 'goodbye, cruel world!' and just melt away, then come back a week later because #### it, why not. I'm talking skeletons-partying-it-up-outside-the-flesh melting. It's ridiculous.

[clownfitch]

Candy canes will stay puffed up and very happy looking during daylight hours and split like crazy if they are fed a couple of times a week. I feed my tank ReefRoids at lights out on Wednesday and Sunday.

[B-Lek]

Same here as above!