What is wrong with my Acan?

[ReefRusty]

Help... this happen over a couple days that I have noticed and looks really bad today. Appears to be loosing it tissue.

Parameters are: (Note I use natural sea water)
Salinity 1.026
Nitrate 15
Ph 8.22
Alk 8.5
Cal 430
Mag 1320
Phos 0.065 ( this is always at this level due to Natural sea water)

Tank is 5 months old and this acan has been in for 4 weeks. All other corals look very healthy and fine. Weekly water changes.

 

[vetteguy53081]

Nitrate a tad high but I dont think this is a contributor.
Lights appear a little bright and I would reduce white light intensity./ .. . . . Moderate flow.

What test kits are you using ?

 

[ReefRusty]

Nitrate a tad high but I dont think this is a contributor.
Lights appear a little bright and I would reduce white light intensity./ .. . . . Moderate flow.

What test kits are you using ?

Lights have not come on yet, this is the light in the house just to get a clear photo. When lights are on I only have my whites at 15% and lighting intensity is only at 60% using Radion xr15 G5

Using salifert and hanna. They have low to moderate flow in this area.

 

[ReefRusty]

Test on phosphorus which came back at 52 so conversion to phosphate it would be 0.159 I did feed reef roids 22 hours ago and do know this sky rockets my phosphate up. But this acan was looking like this a couple days ago.

 

[ReefRusty]

So went to LFS was told to dip coral, tried this and checked to male sure there wasn't anything on it that was attacking it.. nothing appeared to have come of during the dip. Have not seen anything trying to nip at it. Only have trochus snails and glass shrimp as clean up crew. 1 x baby blue tang 2 clownfish and a couple chromis.

 

[Rickybobby]

I find acans on the bottom do the best. They inflate nicely and look so haopy

 

[Hallowhead]

Looks like something is eating it

 

[Butuz]

From my experience, if everything else is doing well, dont rush and adjust stuff just to save one frag (unless thats localized like dipping, etc). My philosophy is that some just won’t make it. Your goal is to keep it stable for all corals. I have had zoas melt, one goni die sitting in the same tank with 5 other gonis doing exceptionally well, etc. happens, keep the ones that like your tank happy instead.

 

[Aqua Man]

The acan behind the one with issues, how long has that one been in the tank?

 

[ReefRusty]

The acan behind the one with issues, how long has that one been in the tank?

The other 2 Acans have been there for about 2 weeks now and doing well. This is one feeding tonight. There about 2inches away from the small one that is having issues.

 

[ReefRusty]

From my experience, if everything else is doing well, dont rush and adjust stuff just to save one frag (unless thats localized like dipping, etc). My philosophy is that some just won’t make it. Your goal is to keep it stable for all corals. I have had zoas melt, one goni die sitting in the same tank with 5 other gonis doing exceptionally well, etc. happens, keep the ones that like your tank happy instead.

Yeah its inevitable isnt it, never going to keep everyone in the tank happy. And yes 95% other corals are thriving.. my Ultra goni struggles a little but other 2 doing great. 5 of 6 zoas are doing great and growing and multiplying. But yes everything in relation to parameters are stable. Do find my phosphate sky rockets after reef roids taget feeding. And takes a few days to go back down to 0.06.

 

[Aqua Man]

Beautiful!!! So it’s the newest one? Hmm... was it a fresh cut frag? Could be bacterial infection or those shrimp maybe. Not familiar with that species.

 

[ReefRusty]

Beautiful!!! So it’s the newest one? Hmm... was it a fresh cut frag? Could be bacterial infection or those shrimp maybe. Not familiar with that species.

Yes one of the newest corals in the tank along with a couple of hammers. It was dipped for 5 minutes like everything else and had nil pests. All the new corals were Healthy. The orange acan im having issues was nice a few weeks ago

 

[ELChingonsReef]

I'm having the same problem..this acan was perfectly fine last week now its gone..I've had this acan 4 months always did great something happened I don't know what..can anyone help..i know this is not a good picture but it's the best I could get

 

[acanman]

Yall feeding them? Tentacles coming out wanting food/filtering? Acans tend to be pretty hardy. I spot feed mine 2 times a week

 

[acanman]

Too much flow? They don't look like any of them are puffed out and extending tentacles like they tend to do

 

[Oldsman]

Those larger colonies look fabulous behind the troubled one !