Acantophyillia post update

[TheMysticGriffin]

Here are the pictures of my acantophyillia which I had mentioned in a previous post, his mouth has now closed, will he strech over the empty part of his skeleton? this is my first acanto, so is this sort of stuff normal or can he easily recover?

 

[ryanjohn1]

They can recover. Insure good water quality and occasional feeding

 

[TheMysticGriffin]

Okay, thank you. I just fed him and he doesn't seem to be interested, he's in a area of very low flow and medium light, is he still in the acclimation process?

 

[VintageReefer]

It looks bleached to me but I know you mentioned the beautiful colors so this might just be from the camera not capturing accurately.

Flesh wise I do not see damage. Yes they can retract and expose skeleton like that.

I believe these feed at night. Try turning off lights and flow and drop some mysis on the mouth and wait 10-20 minutes and see if it eats it or shows any feeding signs. It might need a few days to adjust to your tank

 

[TheMysticGriffin]

It looks bleached to me but I know you mentioned the beautiful colors so this might just be from the camera not capturing accurately.

Flesh wise I do not see damage. Yes they can retract and expose skeleton like that.

I believe these feed at night. Try turning off lights and flow and drop some mysis on the mouth and wait 10-20 minutes and see if it eats it or shows any feeding signs. It might need a few days to adjust to your tank

Oh, is it bleached? Under blue light it has green dots and a overall a light purple color, under white lights it looks really ugly colored but at the LFS it had these colors of light blue, green dots and a purple outline which is why I bought it, it looked like this at the LFS but the guy told me that he had fed it which is why it was like this, there were filter feeding worms attached onto its skeleton but I cleaned them without damaging any of the coral. I tried to take a photo under blue but the camera doesn't pick it up, the only inhabitants of the tank are conches and a skunk cleaner shrimp who doesn't bother corals. I'll try to refeed him this night, but he's in a area of very low flow, will that harm him?

 

[VintageReefer]

In the picture it appears bleached but I am not saying it actually is. Just that the lighting in the picture is probably not capturing how it looks in person

Low flow should be ok. The cleaner shrimp might try to steal food from it. Need to keep an eye during feeding times. Sometimes people have to put a cover over the coral to keep shrimp from stealing. 2 liter soda bottle cut off at the neck area is a cheap diy fix

 

[TheMysticGriffin]

In the picture it appears bleached but I am not saying it actually is. Just that the lighting in the picture is probably not capturing how it looks in person

Low flow should be ok. The cleaner shrimp might try to steal food from it. Need to keep an eye during feeding times. Sometimes people have to put a cover over the coral to keep shrimp from stealing. 2 liter soda bottle cut off at the neck area is a cheap diy fix

Ok, thank you so much! I should not switch the coral right? Because this was the most beautiful one out of the ones at the LFS but was also the only one that was "retracted" like this.

 

[VintageReefer]

I would say give it a day or two. What lighting do you have ?

 

[TheMysticGriffin]

I would say give it a day or two. What lighting do you have ?

445nm Royal Blue

460-470 nm Blue

20.000K White

660nm Deep Red

420nm Violet

All LED

 

[VintageReefer]

445nm Royal Blue

460-470 nm Blue

20.000K White

660nm Deep Red

420nm Violet

All LED

I suspect it would look best with royal blue, blue, and violet, and other channels off but that’s just how I like to run my tanks

 

[TheMysticGriffin]

Oh, but I heard that having white light off is detrimental, is that true? I also have hammers, frogspawn, 2 plate corals, a few zoanthids and an alveopora colony with goniopora colony, will they be ok if I turn off the white light completely?

 

[TheMysticGriffin]

Beautiful tank by the way.

 

[VintageReefer]

You don’t need white at all for coral. I have had my tank go months with just the blues and violet.

I made a profile with whites at 5% and blues/violet at 40-45% to get a more daylight look once in a while. I use it maybe 2 or 3 days a week and the rest of the week I’m not running white at all

 

[VintageReefer]

Here’s many of the same corals - the do great for me under blues/violet only!

 

[TheMysticGriffin]

Those are all really nice corals! I really like the blue hammer, thank you for all the help VintageReefer, I'll try to give it a few days to recover, if not I might exchange it for another one at the LFS (hopefully they'll reaccept it), I'll try to feed it after lights out and hope everything works out.