Candy Cane Coral

candy cane coral - Reef Sanctuary

I had bought some candy cane coral from live aquaria and when it got here it looked ok put it in the tank and it just keeps getting worse now there is pretty much nothing left. I floated the bag for about 20 minutes and used the drip method to acclimate. I have it at the top of a bio-cube 14 and i was wondering if it will come back or what I should do. Thanks Jake What kind of lighting in the tank? Have you checked your calcium level? How about alkalinity? Are any of the feeding tentalcles coming out? I had trouble with my candy canes after putting them in my Biocube 29g. Since, I added the hydor koralia pump, increased the lighting by 50% (wedged another PC light in between the stock lights) and then started checking my calcium level. Initially, calcium level was 200ppm, up to 360ppm now, better but should be 400-500. Added iodine, strontium and molybendem and now they look better than the ones in the fish store I bought them. I also do a little directed feed using a turkey

Animal rights spark new cultural war in China

BEIJING—Amid the clamour of a hectic outdoor farmer’s market, a German shepherd puppy stares through the wires of his filthy cage, a rusted coop he shares with three other dogs. Hidden deep in the mountains about 90 kilometres north of Nanning near China’s border with Vietnam, the market rattles with the squawk of chickens, the drone of motorcycles and the quiet whine of caged dogs.

Oblivious to the mayhem, the puppy sits obediently still. Just three or four months old, the tiny black-and-tan dog has the trusting calm of an animal that had once been a pet. Perhaps he ran away one night only to be abducted and trafficked into China’s dog meat industry. Maybe there was a little boy or girl still hoping he would come home.

It didn’t matter now.

Today he’d be slaughtered — butchered and sold for about 80 yuan, or $12.

As a pretty young dog he’d be doubly valued — for his flesh and his fur.

“Eating dog meat brings good luck,” says the dealer, who offers to kill and butcher any one of dozens of live dogs he has for sale. It’s healthy too, he explains, because the dogs are fed the same food as humans — scraps from the table.