Acans Why Do They Hate My Tank?

[See Gee Sea]

Hello all, we've all heard that acans are "easy." Being the case, why am I about to smoke the 6th acan (a lovely small colony)? Aside from a slight uptick in phosphates .16 and which is now back to .02, N04 12-16, Alk 10.1, Cal 440, Mg 1260 I can't figure out why this particular colony is dying. For perspective I put the rest of the tank photo in here. The only other issue I'm having is the hammer stinging the monti cap because both are growing too quickly. Are there some corals that just don't like some tanks no matter what? That coral beauty that got it's tail in the photo is for the most part a model citizen. I've never caught it nipping at anything and it's well fed.

 

[Nano sapiens]

The odd thing about nipping fish is that they typically do it when you aren't looking

Since the rest of your corals look fine and you've tried six different acans, I'd lean towards the Coral Beauty. Suppose you could set up a video camera to see what happens when you aren't around.

 

[Lavey29]

I've been hit and miss with them also.

 

[Tired]

Do you feed them anything, by any chance?

 

[See Gee Sea]

Do you feed them anything, by any chance?

I give them brine shrimp and feed BRS Reef Chili.

 

[moosevandyke]

They love dirty water

 

[cpoynter]

The odd thing about nipping fish is that they typically do it when you aren't looking

Since the rest of your corals look fine and you've tried six different acans, I'd lean towards the Coral Beauty. Suppose you could set up a video camera to see what happens when you aren't around.

I agree. I also have a dwarf angel (Centropyge argi) and it nips at micromussa.