EMERGENCY: ACAN melting.

[Feivel]

Hey guys. Umm assume parameters are ok. Everything going fine and all of a sudden WHAMMO acans melting. Three heads on one (1 yesterday 2 more today) and 1 head on two seperate acans. Im very worried as i have 35 different aans and dont want to loose any more. They take sooo long to grow nice and big and sooooo fast to disapear. Any help is appreciated guys. I will replace my carbon and see if it helps. By the way its a heavy coral stocked 75g and a 30g.

 

[reef life]

Echinata will destroy anything that gets to close to it. Yes the orange coral to the right of it. I found out from experience.

 

[Duffam3434]

I hope that Enchinatas the problem so you can just move it.. Because those Acans are Very Nice Corals!! Good Luck!!

 

[nova65ss]

Yep gotta move that one next to it! That thing is lethal to anything within about 6" of it!

 

[Feivel]

Thats good to know. Thats what i thought at first. But the other two are hard camera angles but they have nothing around. I am planning a 75g upgrde for the acan tank. Might be as soon as next week. I got the tank, need plumbing to complete and connect as well as a larger return pump, but i can use 2 pumps for that instead of one biger one

 

[reef life]

They should call the echinatas spiderman coral cause they will spin a web of mass destruction. Lol.

 

[Reef4reef]

Echinata will destroy anything that gets to close to it. Yes the orange coral to the right of it. I found out from experience.

+1 move Echinata away from Acan , suck as beautiful acan bro!

 

[Acanholic]

Move the echinata to the reef of someone else. I swear to you. One of that things kill an anemona in my friend's tank.

 

[NanaReefer]

Also never assume water parameters are fine

 

[Scutterborn]

Also never assume water parameters are fine

+1


- Ben -

 

[fish&dogs]

Had same problem last week need to move

 

[LOVETHISHOBBY]

Also remove the dead portion and dip just in case. I use iodine or Coral Rx

 

[jservedio]

Yeah Acan Echinata's do NOT get along with Lords, Bowerbanki, or Hillae. Keep them at least 6" away from your other acans and group the echinatas together since they don't fight amongst themselves. They are NASTY and even if they look like they are far enough away stay up with a flashlight one night and you will see a HUGE mass of yellow and white tentacly nastyness coming out of them and destroying the world of anything near them.

+1 check params - they go really quickly but ususally don't lose a 1 polyp at a time like that - they ususally all shrivel up and the remaining heads look good.

Do you have any fish or anything that could have a new found taste for acans? Lots of fish will target acans first before they eat any other coral because it is the fleshiest, meatiest, most expensive and slowest growing coral in your tank.

 

[Feivel]

Do you have any fish or anything that could have a new found taste for acans? Lots of fish will target acans first before they eat any other coral because it is the fleshiest, meatiest, most expensive and slowest growing coral in your tank.

WHY oh why is that SOOOO TRUE!!!! AAAAGHHHHHH.

I stay atop of my params and doubt (still could be) that it is that.Because of other issues, I changed my Carbon just incase its toxin, replaced my gfo as it was also needed, i also replaced my skimmer from a vertex-100 to a curve 7 (Not just for the 30g now theres a 75 to it too and i plan on upgrading the 30 to a 75) and also did a 20% water change in case trace elements were the cause. Last W/C was 2 months ago, and 2 months before that. I used to change my water 10% weekly but i ran into a balancing issue and wanted to straighten it out first now i think its trace issues... either way It was all stuff that needed to be done, this was just a great reason to do it.

My 75 & 30g Reef. - YouTube (Summer at PEAK temp , nobody has noticed or said anything about it yet Vid was shot about a month ago.

Oh, fish in the 30g, dragonette & the banghai wich I wanna get a few to breed, im just waiting for a different batch or location to buy them from to help avoid inbreeding) Odds are says that its the same supplier that stocks all local stores lol


OK so I also moved the echinata into the big tank just to see. But theres 2 other heads also that are melting in other places that are no where near anything .... those are mysteries. I tried to pick up as much dead flesh with the bastor. Theres a few echinatas near each other but ive NEVER seen these tentacles and im always peeking at night Its the best time for the reef in my opinion That and reefbright with orange or brown tint sunglasses OUCH now thats hot (OH and also a good camera filter color to get the blue hues out, Thats is a Beutiful tip to anyone actually reading my whole post )

Thanks for the many and quick replies guys really pulling together like familia
Heres to you guys: "CHIN CHIN"
I love this forum.
Cheers

 

[Acanholic]

So. Give us some updates. How is everythin doing now?

 

[kes]

hope it recovered. maybe just a portion of it was affected. sometimes these LPS goes through those periods

 

[Feivel]

Nope... it just kept melting and melting. Im going to give it a coral dip and iodine bath see if it help. Not that i want to but i will try and frag it up with bone crshers as i dont have anything else to cut with ,,,,

Im crying inside, I hate to see stuff from the ocean like that die off.... And for "No apparent reason". Worst nightmare.... and SUCH a pretty acan.

The W/C, Carbon, GFO, and skimmer replacement all helped, but i guess wasnt enough....
I read that they just do that sometimes .... Ive been trying to keep it clean but it just spreads and spreads.....

From one Acanholic to another:
AAAAAGGGGGGGHHHHHHH NNNNNNNNNNNNNOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!!!!!

Cheers

 

[Feivel]

Side note, with 40 different acans, im surprised only those 3 are affected. One is CRITICAL, the other two just worry me, they are still melting but not as alarming as the one in question.
Ill post a picture shortly

 

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