Let's see pics of your candycanes/trumpets!

[skippy2]

sorry, I have no idea how that happened. I'll keep my fingers off the keyboard next time.

[Julio]

I LIKE CANDY.........

[DRZL-sauras]

tld

lol..tell me about it....damn acans..im waiting for some logically priced colonies to buy once the fad subsides....$200 a 1/2 in polyp?

"pUh-LeeezZe"

If you ever feel like making someones day and have any frag of that candy cane to ship up to nj LET ME KNOW...

DRZL and ebert give

[mothra]

tld - That's a nice cualastrea. I saw a couple colonies just like for sale from dr. mac and thought about getting one. Looks cool with the little stripes, like you say the poor man's acan

[shelburn61]

How strong a lighting do you guys keep yours under? I just got a bright green one. I have 110w PC over a 20g long tank. Will it lose color?

[davejnz]

Mine dont like strong light so i keep them in the lower half of my tank with VHO's/T5's.Yours shouldn't lose color,most LPS will do well with lower lighting,especially if you feed them.

[impur]

Mine are on the sand with 96w PC over it. Its probably the fastest growing coral in my tank.

[skippy2]

My lfs told me to keep mine at the top of the tank. I have1 250w mh in a 55. Should I move it further down. I admit I didn't research on my own before I bought it.

[R33f3r]

Research next time :: , but in the mean time I would place it in the lower half and "light acclimate" slowly over a week or so and then place it in your tank where it will receive bright but indirect light.

[skippy2]

Thanks for the quick response. Would you believe me if I told you this was my 'first' impulse buy?

[R33f3r]

Yeah.......I think most of us have done the same one time or another

[meagan_myers]

[JENnKerry]

Here's ours

[bobioden]

Here's mine

[DRZL-sauras]

my modest attempt at macro

[BillnJennh]

Is there a distinction between a branching and non-branching type? I just got a tiny frag of metallic green, with two small heads on it, but they are on long stalks, somewhat like a branching hammer of frogspawn.

[Ludwigia73]

I believe they are all branching. When they seem to be attached, they are in the process of splitting. My light green one from the first pic now has 6 heads, about to be 8. I keep it about 3" from the surface under 250w mh 14000k. They love this light, and stay puffy all day. They recede the flesh at night, and extend the feeder tentacles. Once a week, I direct some freezedried cyclopeez into the tentacles at night.

[zachfishman]

Doing what I can with only 170 watts over my 120. But they grow, the bottom one had only three heads four months ago.

[bmhair03]

Here Is a Pic of the 2 I have left.How quick do they grow normally.

[gemini aquarius(t)]

the bottom one had only three heads four months ago.


WOW

[Ludwigia73]

Mine started as 2 heads, now I have 6, and I should have 8 this month sometime.

[DRZL-sauras]

the one in my picture is a mutant or something..in the pic there is 4 mouths now those spilt and im having 8 mouths on each branch...when the he77 is it going to branch out and seperate

zachfish how did yours get all spread out look like slinky's to me anyone that would like to chime go for it


also always looking for eye candy so post more pics especially any weird color variation

[tld]

Does anyone have any comments on the two different morphs? The ones I have seen most are the green ones with heads about the size of nickel and then this other variety that has larger heads with red flesh and green centers like this one:



I call it my lobo-candy

And yes, I finally got my pictures hosted elsewhere, so here's a shot that's a little bit better than the one I posted earlier:



I have found that my regular candy grows very fast - the one above grew from a single head and I have know that I have traded away at least 25 heads of it. My lobo-candy grows much slower.

[Ludwigia73]

Holy crapola, tld, if you ever come to south florida, bring me 1 or 2 heads of that awesome one with the stripes around the rim! I'll pay well!!!

[tld]

Will do Ludwigia. I may be headed south to Miami in March, but those plans are not finalized yet.