Do candy canes often leave their frag plugs ?

[Idech]

I thought my candy cane was dead, the skeleton was dry on the frag plug. This morning I saw the 2 candy cane heads in the opposite corner of the aquarium, on the sand bed. They don’t look dead at all.

Is this a thing ?

 

[Bucs20fan]

This appears to be an instance of polyp bailout. It surviving for the moment, but will ultimately die. You will have to find the root cause of the bailout. Could be parameters or something was bothering it.

 

[Idech]

This appears to be an instance of polyp bailout. It surviving for the moment, but will ultimately die. You will have to find the root cause of the bailout. Could be parameters or something was bothering it.

Oh that’s too bad ! I knew it wasn’t happy. There is something going on in my tank and I can’t figure out what it is.

I have slight dinos (I’ll be dosing silicates as soon as I get my order) and hadn’t done a water change in about 8 weeks. Yesterday I changed 25 gallons.

Alkalinity is hard to keep stable and fluctuates between 9,0 and 10. I started dosing less AFR to help.

Magnesium depletes even with AFR so I started dosing weekly instead of once randomly when it dropped to much.

Other than that, my parameters were, before the water change :

temp : 78 F
salinity : 1,0255
Phosphates : 0,08 ppm
Nitrates : 9,9 ppm
alk : 9,8 ppm
Mag : 1320
calcium : 430

I’ll test today to see how everything is after my big water change.

 

[mdb_talon]

They can live after polyp bailout it is just rare because some condition was not good for them anyway usually.

 

[John Neuzil]

It's a thing, a bad thing.

 

[Idech]

I still see one head on the sandbed sometimes. Still not dead but I don’t know how it’s going to manage floating around like that.

 

[Idech]

One of the heads has landed on the side of the other candy cane in the tank. I wonder how long it will stay. I haven’t seen the other head in a while.