Candy Coral Help!!

[sharuq1]

That thing is huge. Maybe it feels crowded so is trying to drop the heads to reproduce in other areas?

[BC564]

I have little heads all over the place in the tank....one has attached to a mushroom colony rock. I have never heard of this happening before. But I'm not a candy coral expert.

[Myka]

Originally Posted by BC564

I have little heads all over the place in the tank....one has attached to a mushroom colony rock. I have never heard of this happening before. But I'm not a candy coral expert.

So the heads that falls off live? If so, it must be a form of natural reproduction. Is it just the fleshy part that falls off, or does part of the skeleton go with it?

[Murminator]

Yep its reproducing my closed brain is going thru that now

[michika]

Its normal, my frogspawn and hammer corals have both done it in the past as well. I also had my candys do it too. It was often triggered in my tank by heavy feeding, or a fish shoving its way in the branches to get to some food.

[BC564]

I'll take a picture tonight....but its not nearly as pretty to look at as it was a few weeks ago.

[justinl]

A lot of corals disperse this way and i wouldnt be at all surprised if candy canes did this naturally. Just look at how dense your colony is; there's no more room for lateral asexual reproduction. I wouldn't worry about it too much, but i might consider spreading the love and fragging that bad boy. btw, I'd say that's a very nice colony.

[kwirky]

Originally Posted by sharuq1

That thing is huge. Maybe it feels crowded so is trying to drop the heads to reproduce in other areas?

read in an article about fragging candycane that if it's fragged then it grows healthier because it gets more water flow through it.