What is wrong with my acans

[pettoe90]

Starting happening 3 days ago, they are no longer puffing up. Were doing fine for a bout 3 weeks

Amino 0
Nitrite 0
Nitrate 10
Ph 8.0
Po .1
Alk 85
Sal 1.25
Temp 78.4

Only thing I've changed is the fuge light

 

[cody2cannon]

Can't help but im going to follow hope someone can help! These are my next purchase so I'm curious!

 

[cody2cannon]

@saltyfilmfolks

 

[3mm3]

what is your magnesium level?
What fish do you have in there?

 

[Mal11224]

Gotta look at your parameters to see if you have any swings in alkalinity, calcium and magnesium. Also, did you change your lighting or flow? Swings can affect them, but stability will help them bounce back.

 

[saltyfilmfolks]

Eww. Bummer.

Yea what fish do you have and do you have cleaner shrimp?

Are you running a gfo or phosphate binder?

What dip did you use?

 

[3mm3]

Also do you have any cowrie snails?

 

[pettoe90]

Coral Rx dip

Fish list
2 clowns
1 line goby
1 engineer goby
1 bi color chromi
1 purple firefish
1 6 line wrasse
1 yellow green goby
1 watchman goby
2 peppermint shrimp
1 emerald

Nothing's really change my powers heads change flow all the time

Do not have a mag or calc tester

Also running phosegaurd but my reactor was unplugged not sure for how long it's been unplugged but parameters have been stable

 

[saltyfilmfolks]

IMO. If it wasn't an acclimation prob (shouldn't have been) I'd look at the shrimp and crab.

If you can, after lights out peek at the tank.

Let's get some opinions. #reefsquad

 

[melypr1985]

If the water parameters check out and aren't swinging, then my first suspect would be the peppermint shrimp. Those little devils will wreck shop on big squishy polyps like that.

 

[Mal11224]

If the water parameters check out and aren't swinging, then my first suspect would be the peppermint shrimp. Those little devils will wreck shop on big squishy polyps like that.

I agree. Need to get a test kit. Parameters can be all over the place. Also, those shrimp are sooooooooo annoying.

 

[melypr1985]

those shrimp are sooooooooo annoying.

I know right?!! I've had them lay waste to every single LPS colony I put in this one display..... for a year! Finally, after trying several times and failing to catch them, we purchased a hawkfish for that display. Well, he certainly ate well for the first couple weeks, got nice and round. Oh and guess what? I have LPS coral in that tank again! Woot!

 

[pettoe90]

Haven't seen them miss with them took a look last night and this morning when lights were off. The one acan that is deflated looked good yesterday but today starting to look more like the bigger one

 

[melypr1985]

So here's what you do in this order:

Check you CA, ALK, MG - do this often like once a week and write them down so you can spot trends
Do another dip on anything that's being effected
Move the acans to a place with lower light and lower flow
If you have those devil shrimp - remove them in a kind and peaceful manor (or whatever it takes)
Give them some time like this. Keep testing to watch how your numbers fluctuate.
Watch at night with a moon light or Red light to see if you find anything crawling on them and eating.

 

[Mal11224]

Haven't seen them miss with them took a look last night and this morning when lights were off. The one acan that is deflated looked good yesterday but today starting to look more like the bigger one

Well, my suggestion would be to pick up a test kit. If you are going to keep corals, you have to keep good water, which means maintaining stable levels. Still need to watch your inhabitants to see if something is messing with them.

 

[pettoe90]

So here's what you do in this order:

Check you CA, ALK, MG - do this often like once a week and write them down so you can spot trends
Do another dip on anything that's being effected
Move the acans to a place with lower light and lower flow
If you have those devil shrimp - remove them in a kind and peaceful manor (or whatever it takes)
Give them some time like this. Keep testing to watch how your numbers fluctuate.
Watch at night with a moon light or Red light to see if you find anything crawling on them and eating.

Will do light level has been pretty low, I only have softy and lps corals so I don't have a reason to run high light, I'll turn power heads down

 

[pettoe90]

Thanks guys I'm going to try and save them

 

[pettoe90]

Btw guys I've had them for about 3-4 weeks, first week they looked like this then they looked great and healthy

 

[jd371]

Following. Weird, it seems a lot of people are having problems with their acans lately. I've noticed more threads like this recently in other forums too. Mine started a couple of months ago, still holding on but pale and deflated. All my other corals are doing fine. No changes and parameters stable. I don't have peppermint shrimp and my CBB doesn't touch any of my corals.
Sg 1.025
Mg 1350
Ca 440
Alk 9
No3 5
Po4 .06
Temp 77-79

 

[Robthorn]

Bacterial or viral is my guess. As previously stated this is happening more and more to many experienced reefers and noobies alike. It appears to happen in my tank to many different lps while not effecting others. 2 separate tanks for me. Different lights and pumps and skimmers. Completely different types of systems.
My acros continue to go crazy in my tank and zoas do well in my wifes.