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Candy cane coral

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jamman

I have a candy cane coral frag with two heads and a third forming. Can someone axplain what happens when these begin to die off. The heads seem to look ok with some tentacles coming out but the flesh part only goes a little bit down behind the heads then bare hard calcium looking coral starts. Is this normal or should there be flesh all the way down to the rock it's attached to? I am running a 120 tall with 4 t-5s I have this pice placed about midway with medium flow. Any input would be awesome, thanks Jerry.
 
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ds4x4

sounds like they are retracted.. your seeing the skeleton of the coral and usually a thin flesh covers them.. if you handle them too rough you will prob kill the whole head but since they grow independently if you kill one the others aren't affected.
 
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Dave

This may be a case where a picture is worth a 1000....It sounds to me that everything is fine. You should not expect there to be flesh all the way down to the rock it's attached to.

I will try to post a picture of mine later today, but if you have a pic of yours, even better.
 
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sur4die

i have a green candy cane that i got from fraggle reef (10$!!) it has been spliting and growing like crazy. most pairs or triplets of heads have a common fleshy piece below the head, but after that they have began to split.

so to answer your question i do not believe that the retraction of the fleshy mantle towards the head is a problem.

i'll try and grab a pic of mine tonight and post it for comparison/talking points.
 
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sur4die

these are some pics from the inter-tubes that kinda illustrate my point


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Phyl

Phyl

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That is just how they (and frogspawn) grow. They split and then grow "stalk" and only the heads remain fleshy. Perfectly normal. Not considered die off.
 
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