The Puffer Forum

Thanks in advance

Candy cane.

It might be a candy cane coral... I'm not sure. Mine looks a lot different... Pinks, blues, etc. But mine was bought, it was not a hitchhiker.. Maybe you can find some info here:

http://www.chucksaddiction.com/hitchhikers.html

It looks a bit stressed out.

That's an understatement! Lol. I didn't even think it was alive at first.
It was in a pile of rock and rubble in a tank with no lights on, just got it yesterday.

Give it light (not too bright at 1st) & try feeding it meaty foods.

Ok, I will do so. He's in moderate light, do I mince the food and squirt it at/near him gently with a syringe?

Yes, turn the flow off for a while.

Ok, will do. Thank you

Thank you for the link geronimo, and thanks for the feeding to PP.
I fed it krill morsels today, and one of the ?mouths? had a piece that wasn't as fine fall in the middle of him, he munched slowly (like 10 min), and brought it within himself. Most particles pieces were very fine, and the other ?mouths?didn't display any obvious eating like the one, is this sufficient? Are they still eating?

I've always wondered if feeding just one mouth would nourish the entire coral?

Lol, I really don't know anything about the structure of the animal. If something doesn't have a stomach or butthole, I'm kind of lost on the feeding process.

I have 5 or 6 corals with "mouth". I don't spot feed any of them. Torch coral, candy cane, and some zoas. They just catch food that floats by. I feed the "tank". All my corals are growing very well. I will have to frag the torch soon, as it's tentacles are starting to irritate other corals a bit (mainly mushrooms that just keep growing everywhere).

I love hand-feeding everything with a mouth.

Yeah he looked like he was eating a little tiny hot dog. I'll feed him once a week or less, no one else likes krill anyway.