Tomato Clown

[100gallon]

So it would appear that my otherwise healthy tomato clown who happily hosted my flame tip nem is getting skinnier and skinnier. I have tried mysis, brine, ERC, nls pellets and cobalt marine flake. He looks like he is going to eat what ever he puts in his mouth then spits it back out.

Second issue, my neon candy cane looks like it has tiny polyps that resemble snowflakes, very rapidly multiplying on the base of the candy cane. size would be 1 to 2 mm.

 

[Kman]

Have you recently added any new fish? Have you tried soaking the food in AminOmega by brightwells? I find the extra flavor helps get fish that aren't eating to eat.

Is the candy cane coral healthy? Are the polyps coming out? If it is healthy it could be new growth of daughter polyps. Or it could be eggs of a parasite.

 

[100gallon]

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[Kman]

That doesn't look like daughter polyps. Lol

How long have you had the frag? Are the polyps attached by a common base or individual polyps? They kind of look like clavularia sp or some other polyps. How many tentacles (pedals) on each polyp? Are they feathery tentacles kind of like a palm tree?

 

[100gallon]

No really they look like a blue green snowflake! I believe individual bases. Six petals on smaller 8 on bigger.

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[yveterinarian]

They look a bit like blue clove polyps to me. Most likely a hitch-hiker.

 

[Shooter000]

Blue clove polyps Yvette is right

 

[Shooter000]

They will take over other coral they grow quick..

 

[100gallon]

Ok. I have had this thing since Oct or Nov. Just started seeing them .

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[100gallon]

Yep. Thanks! That's what they are. I will pull the candy cane out and scrub off?

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[yveterinarian]

If it isn't a coral you want then I would scrub them off so that it doesn't take over your candy cane.

I wish I had some growing as a hitch hiker. I had bought some once but it all died off. I liked it when I had it in my tank. My tank seems to be opposite to everyone else's and easy corals are difficult for me. Maybe again someday now that my water parameters are getting better...

 

[heath]

I agree with Yevette, I would love it as a hitchhiker, I finally got 2 pieces of it..

 

[100gallon]

Really? Weird how it's only on that frag. Maybe it's elsewhere. ..I will look.

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[EricTMah]

Kill it Phil. It will only cause you problems down the road

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[100gallon]

Just the polyps or whole frag?

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[EricTMah]

Just the polyps. Or if you can cut it off and mount it to its own rock.

That way when it starts to grow like a weed. You can move the rock

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[100gallon]

Doing that now thanks!

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