Sick Candy Cane

[ozyreefa]

One of the polyps of my candycane has been looking very sick lately, the rest of the colony is fine. Any ideas? RTN?

[tgfrench]

feed them puppies a lil more often.

[demonsp]

Could be lack of feeding. That poylp could be lacking flow or light.
This may help.

http://www.asira.org/caresheets

[ozyreefa]

cheers guys, 4 hours in the lps forum and nothing, 5 minutes in here and i already got 2 hits lol.

[demonsp]

If you can believe some people dont relize there are other forums. And this is the most seen . Some of the really old experianced reefers dont come in here so they take longer to respond.

So do you feed them?

[ozyreefa]

I feed these guys a mixture of brine shrimp, mysis shrimp, daphnia, finely chopped green prawn and a mixture called "king neptunes marine green diet". I do this twice a week about a quarter of a teaspoon for the nine polyps pictured here( one is hidden in the picture). Ive actually had alot of success getting mandarin dragonettes to eat the "marine green diet", I've had a female for at least a year and a half, and she is quite fat, and a friend of mine also recently started to feed his starved mandarin and she is also fattening up nicely. Also had success with angels, butterflys and wrasses with this food. Its good stuff, do you have a similar product?

[ozyreefa]

Also ive heard of people training these guys to get their feeders out during the day, any insight?

[melev]

Have you actually directly target fed that coral with the pumps off?

LPS are not the kind of coral that can RTN (rapid tissue neucrosis). That label is squarely placed on SPS corals though, as they die overnight on occasion.

[ozyreefa]

Yeah I usually do it about 5 hours before the lights come on (in the dead black of night,lol it creeps my girlfriend out when she finds me hovering over my tank at about 3am with a little LED light!) when their feeder tentacles are extended about an inch or so, gotta pic here somewhere i think. I do it with a pipette directly into the polyp and then the tentacles close around the food, I have sat there for a least half an hour to an hour sometimes to make sure they do not reject the food, and i have never seen them spit it out. Do they look "underweight"?
Heres one of the pics,sorry the qualitys not to flash.

[ozyreefa]

sorry bout the pic only a couple of polyps showing.

[melev]

No, they look fine to me actually.

[tgfrench]

Yours are maybe just a tad under weight but very viable. Here is mine that I've had for a while. Fed mostly, a chopped fish/shrimp combo.

[ozyreefa]

wow nice colour in yours, also much bolder ribs and candy stripes. what sort of fish do you use in food.

[tgfrench]

thanks, It is just fleshier than yours at the moment. Yous should color up. The mixture, fish, shrimp, clams, oysters, mussels, basically any "fresh" seafood i can lay my hands on at the moment.

[ozyreefa]

cool thanks for the tips, i will post pictures of its condition in the coming weeks