Candy Coral Help!!

BC564 · #1 03-12-2008, 01:32 AM

I have a candy coral colony with probably 250 heads and have been losing the heads. The flesh isnt shriveling up or coming apart or appearing to melt away like I have seen before. Instead the heads are huge and puffy.....look healthy but the whole head comes off and floats away and sits in another part of the tank....I have been worried about this coral for a few months and have been trying to find out what is wrong....is there something wrong? Is this a form of spreading and building new colonies? Looking for answers and thank you in advance.

BC564 · #2 03-12-2008, 01:39 AM

Here is a pic of the coral

sharuq1 · #3 03-12-2008, 01:48 AM

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

BC564 · #4 03-12-2008, 01:51 AM

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 · #5 03-12-2008, 03:43 AM

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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 · #6 03-12-2008, 04:40 AM

Yep its reproducing my closed brain is going thru that now

kwirky · #7 03-12-2008, 02:31 AM

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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.