My acan has brown spots on it! Help!

alexgray1122 · Jan 8, 2017

I just got home from a long day of shopping for corals. I got six in total in about a four hour period of time. I acclimated dripped all of them, then seachem reef dipped them. Just as I normally do. Then dipped them in rodi to take off the dip chemical. Now I have weird spots on only one of my corals. Can anyone identify what this is?

alexgray1122 · Jan 8, 2017

vhuang168 · Jan 8, 2017

It's hard to tell when it's out of the water. How does it look like in the water?

trido · Jan 8, 2017

I'd suggest NOT dipping your corals in RO water. FW dips are hard on them.
Dip them in tank water to get the chemicals off. I've never seen anything like this before though. Its probably just ticked off from being dipped

alexgray1122 · Jan 8, 2017

vhuang168 said:
It's hard to tell when it's out of the water. How does it look like in the water?

alexgray1122 · Jan 8, 2017

vhuang168 said:
It's hard to tell when it's out of the water. How does it look like in the water?

It's color came back. I'm staring to think it's just it's skeleton. Hoping it is. It's an echinata acan.

alexgray1122 · Jan 8, 2017

trido said:
I'd suggest NOT dipping your corals in RO water. FW dips are hard on them.
Dip them in tank water to get the chemicals off. I've never seen anything like this before though. Its probably just ****** off from being dipped

I will from now on

alexgray1122 · Jan 11, 2017

Sadly I think this coral is dying. It's not coming back anymore but will puff up for about an hour or two a day. Trying my hardest to keep it alive.

Supurderek · Jan 11, 2017

I would just wait it out. Fiddling with it will definitely push it over the edge. I would never rinse any coral in rodi. Definitely ticked it off.

alexgray1122 · Jan 11, 2017

Supurderek said:
I would just wait it out. Fiddling with it will definitely push it over the edge. I would never rinse any coral in rodi. Definitely ticked it off.

I've learned my lesson with rodi. All my other corals have dealt with it fine. But will dip with tank water from here on out. Idk it's not looking so hot, but it's orange is still vibrant and so is its green. Just losing flesh by the day.