Candy Cane not getting better

[Nick Rose]

This is to update on my Candy Cane. I made a thread in April about the decline and thinking it’s the new Icecap Gyre I placed in the tank. Parameters are 1.026, 420, 1410, 9, 78F, nitrate and phosphate not detectable, photo period is 11hrs and 50min with peak at 5hrs. Before the gyre I did have the light at 13hrs with the same peak of 5hrs.


https://www.reef2reef.com/threads/candy-cane-and-flow.586229/#post-5990921

April 3rd

April 21st. This shows how much the tissue has receded from April 3rd to April 21st.

April 21st

April 24th

April 27th

May 2 Skeleton starting to poke out of the tissue. What is going on. How do I fix this.

 

[Mjrenz]

This is to update on my Candy Cane. I made a thread in April about the decline and thinking it’s the new Icecap Gyre I placed in the tank. Parameters are 1.026, 420, 1410, 9, 78F, nitrate and phosphate not detectable, photo period is 11hrs and 50min with peak at 5hrs. Before the gyre I did have the light at 13hrs with the same peak of 5hrs.


https://www.reef2reef.com/threads/candy-cane-and-flow.586229/#post-5990921

April 3rd

April 21st. This shows how much the tissue has receded from April 3rd to April 21st.

April 21st

April 24th

April 27th

May 2 Skeleton starting to poke out of the tissue. What is going on. How do I fix this.

Are they in direct flow from the ice cap? They usually do better with moderate to low flow. Also are you dosing anything in the tank or have you made any new additions?

 

[Nick Rose]

It’s not in direct flow. I just started dosing 2 part 2 weeks ago. But that is a month after this started. Normally this tank has been good on just water changes. I haven’t tested this tank for maybe a month and noticed that the Alk dropped from 8 to 6. I slowly brought the Alk back to 8 and now dose 15ml of both Ca and Alk. It’s now stable at 8

 

[Mjrenz]

An iodine dip may help with the tissue and it looks like it's big enough that you could try splitting it to put some in a different part of the tank, or even a different tank, to at least save part of it

 

[Nick Rose]

Ok I’ll try the iodine dip. Hopefully that will help it. All the other corals (Frogspawn, Acan, GPS, Xenia) and fish are doing great.

 

[Mjrenz]

Ok I’ll try the iodine dip. Hopefully that will help it. All the other corals (Frogspawn, Acan, GPS, Xenia) and fish are doing great.

I'm not an expert on the subject but I had good luck with it when I nearly killed 3 different candy cane colonies by overdosing vibrant. They looked worse than yours but are doing well now and growing after the iodine (and stopping the vibrant lol)

 

[Nick Rose]

The Candy Cane looks much better today. Yesterday evening I increased the photo period from 11hrs 50min to 13hrs like it was before the gyre was place in the tank. But now the Xenia are unhappy. I guess they like a photo period shorter then 13hrs.

 

[AlexWBryant]

It kind of looks like you have a Vermetid Snail growing on the side of it. Do my eyes deceive me? If so, that may be irritating the coral a bit.

 

[Nick Rose]

No it’s a feather duster. It’s been there before the Candy Cane went downhill.

 

[Nick Rose]

Well the candy Cane went back downhill so yesterday I decided to do a iodine dip and today it looks much better. The question I have now is whether it had a infection or could it be that the tank is low on iodide? The reason I ask of low on iodide is that I did a 6gallon water change and it perked up for a day but then it became unhappy. I wonder if there is a trace element that is being depleted. The main parameters are always good.