Candy cane coral splitting?

Adam113 · Jun 24, 2017

Is my candy cane showing signs of splitting? Seems to be more of an oval shape now.

john.m.cole3 · Jun 24, 2017

yep it's splitting alright. Leave it alone and you will have 2 heafs in no time. Then 4, 8, 16, 32 and so on. That's how the addiction starts, coral growth! :)

Adam113 · Jun 24, 2017

john.m.cole3 said:
yep it's splitting alright. Leave it alone and you will have 2 heafs in no time. Then 4, 8, 16, 32 and so on. That's how the addiction starts, coral growth! :)

So cool. First time having a candy cane. Just noticed the difference today. Watching coral grow is pretty incredible, especially how quickly some grow (my yellow polyps are starting to worry me in my other tank)

john.m.cole3 · Jun 25, 2017

yeah man, coral growth is what keeps you in all of this madness I swear. With candy canes, you can also watch them develop a second mouth before it completely splits. They are one of my favorite fast growers for sure. Congrats!

Adam113 · Jun 25, 2017

john.m.cole3 said:
yeah man, coral growth is what keeps you in all of this madness I swear. With candy canes, you can also watch them develop a second mouth before it completely splits. They are one of my favorite fast growers for sure. Congrats!

Second mouth is there! Very new tank too. Glad to see them growing. My frogspawn has gotten huge from only a month ago. There's also a sexy shrimp hidden in this picture

Adam113 · Jul 11, 2017

Two week difference. Almost split!

Katrina71 · Jul 11, 2017

Show off :)

Adam113 · Jul 20, 2017

So close!

jd371 · Jul 21, 2017

Mine was doing the same, but earlier this week it was knocked off it's spot overnight and I found it face down in the sand in the morning. I glued it back but one of the heads lost some tissue and the one that was looking like it was ready to split got all puckered up and I thought it was a goner. This morning there looks to be more tissue growing back and the other one is back to splitting mode again....phew!