Candy cane Coral

[Nelson Vargas]

hello R2R I’m fairly new to the hobby. And just recently picked up a candy cane coral with around 25 heads or so. I placed it in my tank yesterday 6.16.18 and left it alone. Fed it since it had all its tentacles out and reacted very good while feeding.

Woke up this morning and it looked like it had a fight with rocky. I have a few hermits crabs 3 blue leg, few white zebras 3-4, and like 8-9 nasarious snails, 1 turbo. Also have 1 diamond goby, 2 chromis, and cleaner shrimp.

Parameters are as follow
Cal - 470-480 : used 0.95 of regent (Red Sea)
20ppm - nitrates (using nopox Red Sea)
Sal- 1.025
Alk- 7.7
Magnesium: 1500


One picture it’s when introduced to the tank, the other is a few hours later next day. I acclimated the coral temp, then dropped it for 15 minutes since the person I bought it tank was at 1.025 as well. And used coral RX for 10 minutes.

Any help will be appreciate it. I also loved it from the spot I placed it on since it was receiving a little too much flow. MP10 is strong .

Tank
Fluval M90
Skimmer Tunze 9004
Return pump eheim 1002310
Running chaeto
Marine pure
Chemipure
Filter floss

 

[Fudsey]

Welcome to R2R ! ! ! #welcometor2r

Let's get more eyes on this #reefsquad

 

[DSC reef]

Coral rx dip is pretty harsh on LPS in my experience. Try to make sure it's not getting blasted with flow. For now it's going to be a waiting game. Welcome to R2R

 

[Lovemyreef2015]

Welcome to R2R, I agree with DSC.

 

[cloak]

Being that you did feed the coral, I wonder if your hermit crabs/cleaner shrimp ravaged the coral through the night. They have been known to do this when looking for food.

 

[Nelson Vargas]

Dang, crabs... I have 3 blue hermits in my sump with chaeto because they where always on my zoas.

I also have the neon color floating all over the tank. Little dots just scratch off it.

What coral dip can I use that’s efficient enough for any pest ect ? Besides coral RX.

 

[DSC reef]

Dang, crabs... I have 3 blue hermits in my sump with chaeto because they where always on my zoas.

I also have the neon color floating all over the tank. Little dots just scratch off it.

What coral dip can I use that’s efficient enough for any pest ect ? Besides coral RX.

For LPS I like iodine based dips but you can use Bayer as well. Do you have a lot of flow pointed towards the coral? If so I'd adjust it.

 

[GoVols]

@Nelson Vargas
Your already in great hands :D

Welcome to Reef 2 Reef... :)

 

[Nelson Vargas]

Yes I see that !! Amazing guys thanks for the support. Currently the coral has been moved to a place where less flow is happening picture below. Before it was the right of it next to the leather coral.

 

[KJ]

Welcome to R2R Nelson. Nice looking tank;)

 

[GoVols]

Those leather's can produce chemical warfare if they sense another coral close to them.

 

[Crabs McJones]

Welcome to R2R!!

looks like they've pretty much got you covered up above ;)

 

[Jason mack]

Welcome To R2R ,

 

[sghera64]

These grow like weeds in my system. They are very hardy. To me they don’t look that bad. Keep decent flow through the tank to the slimmer and you will be fine.

I’ve found frags in my grow-out tank that were hiding in the muck ‘beneath’ my frag racks. They not only survived, but multiplied under there.

You need not target feed these either. They will grab food when you broadcast feed the fish.

 

[Big G]

What coral dip can I use that’s efficient enough for any pest ect ? Besides coral RX.

+1 on Bayer

 

[Nelson Vargas]

Thanks guys ! I’ll give it another couple days and see how they react and turn out. You guys are baller !!! Thanks