Is this candy cane looking good?

[kil]

Heys guys,

I'm new to the hobby and I'm wondering if this candy cane is doing ok. Its polyps look poffy but a little contracted too and it started to show a brown color. Any thoughts on that?

 

[kevgib67]

Heys guys,

I'm new to the hobby and I'm wondering if this candy cane is doing ok. Its polyps look poffy but a little contracted too and it started to show a brown color. Any thoughts on that?

How long have you had it? Sorry but no not looking good, that doesn’t mean it’s a goner. It has no flesh band like shown in the picture of mine when I bought it over 3 years ago. I don’t know your lighting or flow. Go to Tidal Gardens website and check out their recommendations for candy cane corals for care, lighting, flow, feeding etc. and try to match the recommendations. When I was first starting out the second time there were corals I wanted that weren’t in the hobby my first go around in saltwater and I always went to their website for care recommendations. Good luck.

 

[WalkerLovesTheOcean]

Hi,

Your sand looks clean. Like very clean. I can tell that your tank is brand new. Here are a few questions:

- What are your parameters?
- what lights are you running?
- do you have a powerhead?
- was your tank cycled?

There's still life in that coral, so don't give up yet!

 

[kil]

Yes, my reef is new, it's been running for only 4 months. Here are my parameters:
- Salinity: 1025
- KH 8 - 8,5
- Calcium: 450
- Magnesium: 1500
- Nitrate: 8
- Phosphate: 0,03

My nano has 15g capacity with a 35w LED over it.

I have a power head but I run it only for a few minutes in three different moments in the day just to clean the detritus on the sand, because the tank is too small and everything in there suffers with the high flow.

The candy cane is in front of the return pump, so maybe I'll move it to another place and see what happens.

The candy cane was a gift from my LFS and it was very, very small when I got it. Here's photo:

 

[Uncle99]

A 0.03ppm phosphate number is OK, but, with testing margin of error, this could be zero as well.

If true, this would starve everyone in your system including corals. It can trigger pest stuff to develop.

I’d get that reporting at .1ppm, this way, even with error, we know we have trace phosphate.

 

[kil]

A 0.03ppm phosphate number is OK, but, with testing margin of error, this could be zero as well.

If true, this would starve everyone in your system including corals. It can trigger pest stuff to develop.

I’d get that reporting at .1ppm, this way, even with error, we know we have trace phosphate.

Ok, I started adding phosphate daily 5 days ago but I don't see any changes and the test is still showing 0.03ppm. I'll dose until reach 0.06ppm and see what happens.

Thanks for the advice.