Show me YOUR Candy Canes

[WendyMc]

That's awesome! How often/what are you feeding your candy? Do you feed w/lights out or does it extend for you during the day?

[waterfaller1]

I feed them early in the a.m. some coral vibrance..and also occasionally some mysis shrimp or cyclop- eeze.Here is another different one I have in my nano.

[JimmyS]

After seeing all of these FAT candy canes I am convinced that I need to start target feeding mine. I have about 29 heads on mine, but none are extended that much.

[Mrs.kbmdale]

Wow you guys, I lost track of this thread, and was surprised to see it on the first page again, thanks for keeping it alive!
I've seen a lot of what I think are Trumpets, this doesn't bother me, I love seeing all the pics.... But if someone could clarify the differences between a Candy Cane and a Trumpet for me that would be great! BTW, everyone's pics and specimens I think are gorgeous

1- I thought that Trumpets flesh grows down the skeleton, whereas Candy Canes don't.
2- I thought that Trumpets flesh is variagated/ridged, whereas Candy Canes are smooth.
3- I thought that Candy Canes are more colorful/multicolored, whereas Trumpets are solid colored and more neon(i.e. yellow, green). At least this is what I thought distinguished them.

Here is a pic of our Trumpet when we first got it back on 8-15-05:


And here it is on 12-11-05:
I think it will be 6 heads before long(flash on)

(flash off, under/side view)


And here is our Candy Cane as of 11-14-05(flash off)
Not a great shot



Again, if someone could clarify the differences for me (just for my personal record ) that would be great!

Happy Holidays,
Brianna

[kentrob11]

Here's one of mine:



and the same one at night:

[fishinbuc]

Five to twelve heads in under a year....

[cristhiam]

Here is mine mad with my acan

[WendyMc]

cristhiam, who won that fight?

[cristhiam]

candy cane, made that acan polyp died on that side, but it's almost back to normal now

[baja_01]

Originally posted by Mrs.kbmdale
[B] But if someone could clarify the differences between a Candy Cane and a Trumpet for me that would be great!

There is no real difference. They both are common names for the Genus Caulastrea.

If you want to try to get them to a species name try here.

[onefin]

[kbmdale]

Originally posted by cristhiam
candy cane, made that acan polyp died on that side, but it's almost back to normal now

That is GORGEOUS!! If you ever decide to frag it, I want first dibs wow, ok, i gotta go wipe my chin now