Candy Coral Help!!

[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.

[Pier Pressure]

I have a riccordea mushroom rock that is losing little mushrooms all over the place. I think it is the same thing - no space left in the colony so reproducing. Beautiful coral, by the way.