Help! Acan is eating featherduster

[Hollywood_XL]

Wow… this morning i saw my Acan eating a featherduster worm! Is this bad and Will my Acan survive this? I really dont know how this could happen (duster x2 were on other side of my live rock/ tank

 

[Mark Novack]

Yummy! I don't know for acans, but I pull moulted shrimp carapace out of a cynarina every few days without harm. But the worm is digestable and that's a fat acan. Or you could give it a name and sell it quickly as a hybrid. Acantharoni dusteroni. Very rare, exclusive.

This reminds me of when my son called for me because the feather duster was eating the nose of my Copperband. Bwahahah!

Keep taking photos. It is worth documenting.

 

[Hollywood_XL]

Should i pull it out? Or let him digest the featherduster?

 

[Mark Novack]

If it comes out gently I would pull it.

 

[Dreminon]

cool looking picture. thanks for letting us know and let us know what happens

 

[tanked4u]

I have had zero luck once an acan decides to snack on its neighbors. I think the stress alone kills the corals. Although, the feather duster is a worm, so maybe you will have a different outcome.

Separately, you have some sweet looking zoas. I really like the purple yellow and green yellow ones. Do they have names?