candy cane dying?

I've had my candy cane coral for alittle under 2 weeks and I feel like its dying. I feed it brine shrimp a couple times a week and it use looks worse. There is a white thing on it and I think it might be the skeleton, but im hoping it isnt. I cant get a good picture of the white thing, but here is a picture of it. The other corals are doing well, except for the GSP which hasnt opened up all the way, I'll include a picture of that as well. I dont know the water levels of my tank right now I usually just take it into the fish store and they test it for me. Please dont be hard on me for that, Im investing in test kits this friday. All i know is the salinity is 1.025. The tank is over a year old. Thanks for your help!

 

since you have had the candy cane has it fully inflated? What type of light are you running [even though these are relatively low light guys] Its hard to say what is going with out your params. I can say that they are closed and not looking their best. good luck

 

i run my salt at 1.026 at top off. did yourecive them like this????????? did you glue them?? also what current are they reciving?? you need a test kit!!!!!!!!........its like you have a baby with no bottle.....at least get the readings that your LFS gives you and document them. me i'd rather have the tests at hand

 

yeah, I will post a picture of when i got them ar first, they havnt changed a lot and I dont know what fully inflated looks like. But, i dont think it has. There is a hole in the live rock and thats where i stuck the skeleton, its not glued or anything. the GSP is glued onto the rock. They are receiving medium to low flow and they are under 2 compact fluorescents

 

is that all the lighting you have? 2 CF's? how many watts are they by chance?

 

as reef said...test kits! You need to be able to know at any time, it will help. get the params and come back...

 

18 watts each. Its what comes with the biocube. yeah, i know i need test kits!!