Candy cane trouble

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Hi.

Please can someone tell me what's going on with my candy cane got home today to see it's split into 2 small pieces.

Noticeable difference in pictures.

Parameters that I have test for are as follows.

Temp 24c
Kh 8
Ph 8
Nh4 0.05
No2 0.4
No3 5
Po4 1.8
Salinity 30/ 1.026

Fish in the tank are...
Red fire goby
Clown fish
6 line wrasse
Desert goby
Yellow Watchman goby
Flag tails
Unknown wrasse possible juvenile banana wrasse

Inverts...
Candy cane pistol shrimp
Hermit crabs
2 tiger shrimp.

Please see pics .

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It is dying. If that is all the flesh that is remaining, that's not good. It looks like it had a full head on the very last picture and now, it's two fragments.
How old is the tank?
What lighting are you using?
What equipment are you using on the tank?
 
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It is dying. If that is all the flesh that is remaining, that's not good. It looks like it had a full head on the very last picture and now, it's two fragments.
How old is the tank?
What lighting are you using?
What equipment are you using on the tank?
It's been running for 2 months.
Running a canister filter with 3 additional sponge filters.

Got the zetlight lancia2

Hugger HG070 12w wavemaker

I have hammers
Green Pocilliapora
Pallies
Zoa's
And a red green blastomuso all doing well.
 

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