New coral!

[mbike01]

bought a candy cane coral!! Wife thought it was pretty and the price was right.. any tip on care? will it do okay in the 24 gal nano? I did some research and i need to add cal to the tank and feed with brine shrimp for a treat.. hope that covers it.

[dshnarw]

bought a candy cane coral!! Wife thought it was pretty and the price was right.. any tip on care? will it do okay in the 24 gal nano? I did some research and i need to add cal to the tank and feed with brine shrimp for a treat.. hope that covers it.

 

it'll be fine in your setup. very easy to care for. You DONT need to add calcium unless you're testing for it and find that it's low. Based on your begging for corals thread, you have only this coral that uses calcium, and that means you'll be fine with just changing the water weekly. Feed it meaty foods - brine, mysis, cyclopeeze - once in a while, when the feeding tentacles are out (usually around lights out, but yours may choose to be a weirdo).

[DESERTHEATRACING]

it'll be fine in your setup. very easy to care for. You DONT need to add calcium unless you're testing for it and find that it's low. Based on your begging for corals thread, you have only this coral that uses calcium, and that means you'll be fine with just changing the water weekly. Feed it meaty foods - brine, mysis, cyclopeeze - once in a while, when the feeding tentacles are out (usually around lights out, but yours may choose to be a weirdo).

 

 

Do not forget to do the weekly water change, very important! Also feed it every few days to every week as described. I have 4 types in candy, LOVE them all. Uber easy to care for and hardy. Growth is not uber fast but over the months you will be suprised. I tossed a single head on one of my rocks last month, now it is dividing into 3 heads woohoo! My neon green had a very very slow start. For months it did nothing. But once it got going, it went from 3 heads to 8 heads inside 2 months.

[mbike01]

Sweet.. thanks all i placed it and it looks awesome.... Am looking into an umbrella leather next, they look super cool too

[KMG]

I have two frags of neon-green candy coral in my 29--one with 2 heads and one single. I really like the look of them, and so far they've been easy to care for.

 

Keep an eye on how they look; if they start to fall off and look kind of shriveled, something's not right. (One of my frags was looking puny and withered till I moved it about 4" away from the other, and then it recovered quickly). If they extend their polyps to feed at night (mine sometimes even come out during the day if I'm feeding Cyclopeez) and the heads look nice and fat and full, they're happy.

 

Leather corals are great too, and a lot of them are pretty tough, which is useful, especially when you're just starting out like me. Toadstool leathers (Sarcophyton) are just about bulletproof (I hear the yellow Fiji leathers are more demanding, however). I have a couple of Kenya tree frags that are doing very well; they have a very graceful, flowing look and seem pretty undemanding.