Acan Lord help

TCseh · Mar 30, 2023

I have had this acan for about 2 weeks and it has never puffed up and it is slowly showing more and more skeleton. I feed is mysis and fish pellets every other day. I am checking my parameters now so will post in a minute.
I also have it in low light and flow. Not shadows though. My tank is 20inch tall and 48 wide. I'm running a single gyre on the opposite end of the tank.
My lights are 2 kessil a360x

glb · Mar 30, 2023

You might want to dip it if the tissue continues to recede. The low light and flow IME are fine for acans, I have a bunch!

TCseh · Mar 30, 2023

glb said:
You might want to dip it if the tissue continues to recede. The low light and flow IME are fine for acans, I have a bunch!

What would you recommend dipping it in? I dipped it in coral rx when I got it.

HOLYREEFER · Mar 30, 2023

where do you keep your ALK? I noticed my acans are Fully when my ALK is 8 or 9

TCseh · Mar 30, 2023

HOLYREEFER said:
where do you keep your ALK? I noticed my acans are Fully when my ALK is 8 or 9

Testing everything right now. Last I checked my alk was at a 9-10. While I was checking my water I noticed my hermits keep going to the acan. I kind of think they might be picking at it. I was giving them the benefit of the doubt thinking they where only getting algae. I'm going to try to move it a bit onto my rockwork and see if it starts puffing up since they won't be able to reach it as easily.