Is this an acan?

[yuzu]

I bought an acan online advertised as "apple sour lord acan". It is supposed to look something like this:

What I received looks pink and more like a favia? I have no experience with acans, is this what they look like when stressed? (only put in tank today)

(candy cane next to it as colour reference)

 

[vetteguy53081]

I bought an acan online advertised as "apple sour lord acan". It is supposed to look something like this:

What I received looks pink and more like a favia? I have no experience with acans, is this what they look like when stressed? (only put in tank today)

(candy cane next to it as colour reference)

Looks like acan merletti or bowerbanki

 

[Falc!]

That is not what u purchased. U should give the supplier a call? What store u purchase from?

 

[ChiCity]

it’s an acan/micromussa, and it’s bailing polyps…
or just receding,
which is a precursor to bailing anyway.

this is not good

 

[yuzu]

I will contact the supplier about it; it is a UK seller.
I had only just dipped it so I expect it to be stressed but how can you tell it's bailing polyps? I hope it will liven up in a few hours/days...

 

[mdb_talon]

Definitely not an acan you received. That is an ugly plain favia.

 

[Mr Cypher]

If it is an acan it is super unhappy

 

[MaxTremors]

It’s an Acanthestrea echinata. A. bowerbanki is bigger and more pillowy/fleshy. ‘Merletti’ is a species of blastomussa. It is not a Micromussa lordhowensis (what most people are referring to when they say ‘Acan’).

 

[yuzu]

Thanks all!

Unfortunately it didn't make it and now I have bad outbreak of brown jelly that seems to be affecting everything other than my euphyllia... as of yet.

 

[Falc!]

Ouch

 

[encrustingacro]

Looks like acan merletti or bowerbanki

What the heck is an acan merletti?

 

[encrustingacro]

It’s an Acanthestrea echinata. A. bowerbanki is bigger and more pillowy/fleshy. ‘Merletti’ is a species of blastomussa. It is not a Micromussa lordhowensis (what most people are referring to when they say ‘Acan’).

It has too smooth skin to be an echinata. I would say it looks closer to a rotundoflora.

 

[vetteguy53081]

What the heck is an acan merletti?

Darn phone- Blastomussa merletti or even Micromussa lordhowensis

 

[MaxTremors]

It has too smooth skin to be an echinata. I would say it looks closer to a rotundoflora.

I think it’s just that the photo is a little out of focus.

 

[encrustingacro]

I think it’s just that the photo is a little out of focus.

The skin doesn't have the texture of an echinata. The skin looks more like a rotundoflora.

 

[MaxTremors]

The skin doesn't have the texture of an echinata. The skin looks more like a rotundoflora.

A. rotundaflora has polyps/corallites that are more widely and randomly spaced (similar to a lot of chalices). I still think it’s an echinata. But it’s hard to definitively ID corals off of one picture, and I guess it died, so we can’t get any better photos.