Candy Cane Sweepers?

[ArtifishaI]

Got this Candy Cane frag about 2 weeks ago
They almost always have these little hair / polyps/ sweepers out.
Im second guessing that these are even trumpets
All the pictures I see of Candy Canes dont have these hairs
Can someone explain?
Thank you

 

[mrpontiac80]

Got this Candy Cane frag about 2 weeks ago
They almost always have these little hair / polyps/ sweepers out.
Im second guessing that these are even trumpets
All the pictures I see of Candy Canes dont have these hairs
Can someone explain?
Thank you

Mine shoot out their feeding tentacles at night. I’ll try to catch a picture later.

 

[mrpontiac80]

Here are those feeders after lights go out

 

[Alexopora]

Got this Candy Cane frag about 2 weeks ago
They almost always have these little hair / polyps/ sweepers out.
Im second guessing that these are even trumpets
All the pictures I see of Candy Canes dont have these hairs
Can someone explain?
Thank you

Can we have pics of the coral under white lights only. From the pictures alone I’m seeing Blastomussa merletti aka Pipe Blasto.

 

[Kristopher Conlin]

I agree it appears to be a blastomussa merletti.

 

[pearlofthesea]

I have some candy canes that have actual sweeper tentacles. None of my other candy canes do this.

 

[Alexopora]

I have some candy canes that have actual sweeper tentacles. None of my other candy canes do this.

Oh wow, thanks for sharing this, didn’t know they could send out sweepers as well. I have never caught mine doing this so far.