Acan/anemone/chalice deflated

That is weird. Plenty old, well done! What else is in the tank? Do you have any large leathers (specifically sinularia) or any gorgonias? What have you added lately?
 
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Here is one of my chalices. Its about the size of a salad plate. You can see the tissue melting away.
 
Your water parameters are good
Speak from my experience once the corals started to receded it hard to stop.
Lost a few high end my self never know what the caused is.

Vendors lost corals all the time you just don't see it
Good luck with your tank
Reef on
 
The chalice is certainly damaged. The acans are receeding. Only thing that I can figure is something irritated them enough to cause the damage. Snails, shrimp, another coral, fish, I know I have had fish out of no where decide to bother a coral. Food left on them that irritated them. Any damage to the flesh, these both can be very sensitive and go bad.

I never give up, but if the recession continues on the chalice, frag it away carefully and with nice clean cuts. Dip them in lugols and revive for 5 minutes and place in a hospital tank. A small tank that has same water as main tank. Or just put in your sump with nice light and flow. If they get any brown jelly like substance, pull them immediately. It will go to other corals.

I have had success saving corals with this method and then using an antibiotic in a hospital tank for 4-6 hours. Basically let them sit in the antibiotic water for 6 hours then put them in a new tank (away from my more toxic corals). I probably had 5 of 7 regenerate and survive. I did this with trachys and favias mostly, but wouldn't hurt to try with chalices and acans. Note: this was after I had brown jelly on a couple of them.
 

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