Cand Cane

[dabgood21]

I was away from my tank for only a week. When I got back, half the heads of my Candy Colony are skeletons. Another looks as if its skin is peeling off.

Any ideas why this happened?
All other corals are fine.

Thanks

 

[JARRETT SHARK]

Give us all your levels
any temp swing?

 

[dabgood21]

I've got zeros across the board.
Ca at 420
Sal at 25
Temp about 76-7

It seems to be spreading from head-to-head. The other side of the colony is fine.

 

[MIKE NY]

sounds maybe like a contagious infection...I would frag off the good or bad heads to stop the spreading

 

[anthony27]

do the candy canes have what looks like jelly on them

 

[bizarrecorals]

candycanes are generally well forgiven, can you give more info on your water peremeter, any fish in there?, is it a newly introduce coral?

 

[basiab]

I once took a colony from someone where the heads were dying. What I found was that there was a tiny crab that would eat into the head. I discovered it by looking very close and saw a tiny claw sticking out of the mouth. I pulled it out with a tweasers. Eventually I got them all but by then the head of 35 was down to 3 or 4 heads.

 

[Ryanr1212]

if its spreading then frag and dip.... thats the only solution

 

[motortrendz]

the first thing that intriges me is the fact that you have 0 across the board... almost never see that.. double check with another test kit.. second how is the water flow near it..if its too high it can force the skin right off the heads and cause it to die.. next i would be looing closly at night to see it anything (parasites includes) arent eating away at it..

 

[dubs]

candy cane are weird to me too i tried with them a few times they are doing ok and one day that just peel of and leave the skelleton ?

 

[Ryanr1212]

it might have fallen on something... i mean even if one polyp starts to die for some odd reasong (some fish bumps into it, anything could happen) then the rest will start to die off unless it is fragged.