Candy cane shrinking and splitting

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Hello,
my candy cane doesn't look good, bought it 2 months ago and put it on the sand bed, it keep shrinking unil got moved to higher place - medium flow. it was splitting in the past 2 months and still now.
Is that normal when shrink and split head at the same time?, it seems to stop shrinking by now, algae cover all it's branches, any change to recover?
20 gallons tank
mp40 ~ 2-15% lagoon all day
xr15g5 65% intensity with diffuser, 8 inchs above water level
salinity 1024
dkh 8.5
cal 400-410
mag 1280-1325
temp 77-78.8
no3 2-5 (10-12 a month ago)
po4 0.02-0.05 (was 0 for a few weeks)
2 clownfishs
1 sixline warrse
1 foxface lo
2 purple fire fish
a bunch of turbo snails
TIA
28DA0720-1179-486C-BF43-C6D204F33DB9.jpeg
738E188F-4F6A-4D84-92E5-6D8645B6D625.jpeg


this is when brought to my tank
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Hello,
my candy cane doesn't look good, bought it 2 months ago and put it on the sand bed, it keep shrinking unil got moved to higher place - medium flow. it was splitting in the past 2 months and still now.
Is that normal when shrink and split head at the same time?, it seems to stop shrinking by now, algae cover all it's branches, any change to recover?
20 gallons tank
mp40 ~ 2-15% lagoon all day
xr15g5 65% intensity with diffuser, 8 inchs above water level
salinity 1024
dkh 8.5
cal 400-410
mag 1280-1325
temp 77-78.8
no3 2-5 (10-12 a month ago)
po4 0.02-0.05 (was 0 for a few weeks)
2 clownfishs
1 sixline warrse
1 foxface lo
2 purple fire fish
a bunch of turbo snails
TIA
28DA0720-1179-486C-BF43-C6D204F33DB9.jpeg
738E188F-4F6A-4D84-92E5-6D8645B6D625.jpeg


this is when brought to my tank
AA2BC9D7-EC11-4D78-99E7-9B39787B742D.jpeg
Looks fine to me. This is how they grow. They will just keep splitting like that
 

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