Acan dying off?

[Cory p]

I've had a acan for about a month and slowly died off in my 28 gallon tank. I fed it reef roids and misis shrimp.Alk-9,calcium-460,ph-8.2,phosphate-0,amnonia-0,nitrates-0. I have a Max's pectin razor for lighting and good flow in the tank. Any idea why it died?Thanks in advance

 

[Ljaus]

Do you have some photos, it will help us a lot.

 

[Cory p]

I didn't take any,it got all the way to skeleton. It was fine few weeks with tentacles out and feeding then few days ago it started to shrivel up

 

[Macdaddynick1]

Had the same problem raised my nitrates and phosphates no more dying off , but your issue could be different

 

[Ljaus]

Could be too low of nutrients, could of also being too much light. Acan's can be sensitive to high amounts of light, when they aren't happy the flesh stays tight in the skeleton and eventually they die off.

 

[Hunt3r]

That happened to one of my acan. Mine i think got too much light.

 

[Elementalj]

It's usually too much light.

 

[Cory p]

I'm guessing it might of got to much light then,I moved it from the bottom of tank to about mid level then noticed it was dying. Thanks for the help everyone

 

[Cory p]

Well time to get another acan and see what happends when keeping it at bottom of tank this time like it was in the beginning

 

[Cory p]

Had the same problem raised my nitrates and phosphates no more dying off , but your issue could be different

What did you do to raise your nitrates and phosphates? I have chaeto in the back of my tank,would it be good idea to take it out and see if I can get it to go up a bit?

 

[Ljaus]

Just slightly increasing the amount you feed would raise those numbers enough. Have you got a full tank shot

 

[Cory p]

Here's full tank shot

 

[Elementalj]

Here's full tank shot

I see a little red on the substrate. Id rather not blame the low nutrient theory. In my keeping I've found that feeding them and giving them a little lower light and flow makes them healthy. I wouldn't overfeed, mind you. If the coral isn't doing well, the food tends to rot. Causing other health concerns.

What's your lighting? Is it adjustable in intensity? Can you raise the light?

 

[Cory p]

Yeah the red just started to show up on substrate. I've never had that problem on my 90 gallon. I have a maxspect razr for light and it's controllable but I can not raise it higher,it's already as high as it can go

 

[Elementalj]

Yeah the red just started to show up on substrate. I've never had that problem on my 90 gallon. I have a maxspect razr for light and it's controllable but I can not raise it higher,it's already as high as it can go

Would you mind giving me your lighting schedule and intensity levels?

 

[Ljaus]

Would you mind giving me your lighting schedule and intensity levels?

+1 on this

 

[ahiggins]

Had the same problem raised my nitrates and phosphates no more dying off , but your issue could be different

+1000000
I had a few higher end rainbows that did the same thing, lost 3-4 babies on each. I fed reef roids every other day and overfed my tank like crazy to get nutrients up. Ive since added i nitrate reactor and feed like its going out of style haha I maintain nitrates at 10ish and my acans are unbelievably puffy. Even the ones that had 80% skeleton showing. took about 3+ weeks from when I noticed the skeleton to when they were puffy again. Now I preach reef roids to anyone trying to bulk up their acans.

 

[Cory p]

Awesome,I'm getting more acans this week and might try to raise nitrates up a bit. That was the first acan I had and died.