Too much flow for my acan?

1Clown · Jul 10, 2017

Not sure whether this acan looks okay or not or whether it should be more puffed up like my other acan? Or maybe they're all a little different, some puff up more than others? I wouldn't say this acan is getting a lot of flow to be honest, the one below actually moves in flow but can't see this one move much at all although the flow is bouncing off the glass and upwards in it's direction I believe.

Other acan almost on the sand bed. Nice and fluffy.

Now difference between their placements as they are.

Mikey Mane The Flare · Jul 10, 2017

I'll join post. Having acan troubles myself I think

1Clown · Jul 10, 2017

malacoda · Jul 10, 2017

Could be flow. Could be light (may just be the pic, but the red colony in the lower right looks a bit more shaded than the bluish-purple one you're asking about).

Is it fairly new to that spot, or has it been there a while? Has the flow or lighting in that spot changed significantly recently?

As long as it doesn't appear to be receding, I'd just leave it be for a few weeks.

The red colony in the lower right of this pic was a bit shrunken and less 'inflated' than it's neighbor to the left for several weeks after I made some slight flow and light changes (a bit more of both). While still not always as 'puffy' as its neighbors, now that is acclimated, it's budding and growing. So yours may just need more time to adapt to the spot it's in.

In my limited experience, acans tend to be pretty hearty if just left alone. Live rock hitchhikers had eaten both the red one at the very top of this group ... and the blue one just below it ... down to little more than pepper corn sized bits of flesh left on the skeletons. Yet in just 6 months time both have regrown and are now sprouting new buds as well. (The blue one was actually eaten down to just one polyp twice in the past 6 months ... and is now bouncing back for the second time.)