According to Borneman polyp division in candy cane coral benefits from a surging moderate current and indirect lighting. I've had mine for about a month and it has been doing really well under PC lighting and in a direct flow path of a 125GPH powerhead. I also use kalkwasser for all of my top-off water and add liquid calcium to sustain a 450ppm Ca reading.
That's a good question and I'm not real sure on the answer. If it helps I have about 5.5-6 wpg and my candy cane is about 1/4 of the way up from the substrate on a 55.
I have had one for 5 years and they grow slowly but are a wonderful coral to have.I recommend them highly.They form new branches out from the original polyps, almost like fission, from their bony skeleton.They search for food when the lights go out.Mine like baby brine shrimps.They have clear lovely sweepers at night that latch onto food and also protect them.
Sorry, what do you mean by 'candy' coral. Are you referring to one of the non-photosynthetic soft corals in the dendrenophyta family (probably butchered the spelling). If so, I thought these were not possible to keep alive in a reef tank die to feeding demands.
I think your referring to the soft corals that are orange, red and other exiting colors called carnation corals.They are lovely but you heard right, very hard to keep alive becuase they are non photosynthesetic and have to be fed.
i think there also called trumpet corals, or seomthing, some have a redish outside and a green disk, while others are solid colors...
here's a pic of what i was told was a candy coral... lets see if i was lied to... the pic shows kinda a boring color of it, but under my lights it's a deep purple with sort of a bluish lines on the edge...
as for other news i think two of the polyps are splitting
i'll see if i can get a pic of it but it's on the far right side and one's in the middle left side, they look like they are pinching inward....
dose the mouth get in-longated when it's going to split?
