What is wrong with my acans

pettoe90 · Jul 6, 2017

This morning no lights on seems like they lost more flesh, in think it is bacterial

saltyfilmfolks · Jul 6, 2017

You'd see colonies of bacteria and signs of infection.
Brown jelly disease.

pettoe90 · Jul 6, 2017

saltyfilmfolks said:
You'd see colonies of bacteria and signs of infection.
Brown jelly disease.

Nope none, I think it started after I fed them with Kent food. Just weird all other corals are fine. Hammer favia zoa and gsp

saltyfilmfolks · Jul 6, 2017

pettoe90 said:
Nope none, I think it started after I fed them with Kent food. Just weird all other corals are fine. Hammer favia zoa and gsp

And just so you know.
We have all bought coral over the years that have not done well for no apparent reason with other coral flourishing. Perfect or acceptable parameters. I even went to 7 LFS once to have my water tested.

After that In one case for me, it was gsp. Somehow I killed it.
After doing nothing different. Never testing. Ever. Basic water changes, The Gsp came back. Why? dunno. But it happens a lot to a lot of folks. This was one of the reasons many in folklore say "mature tank" i suppose.

Its why I don't recommend fighting parameters or rushing out and buying more "Better" test kits. The processes are far more complex then we can test for and sometimes the causes are far more simple than the price warrants.

Vincent100 · Jul 6, 2017

This happened to my purple acan frag a few days ago , yesterday saw a peppermint picking at it and iv just took a pic from a min ago of the same pepp doing it again , wonder if he killed it or is just picking now it's dead

3mm3 · Jul 6, 2017

Shrimp can definitely be a pain. Each one has its own personality and taste for food. Some are great. Some are a pain. But the great ones can have a dark side.

3mm3 · Jul 6, 2017

pettoe90 said:
This morning no lights on seems like they lost more flesh, in think it is bacterial

Check your magnesium and like others mentioned keep it in low light. Also keep an eye on the shrimp. Maybe the frags into a dish with a cover for a while

pettoe90 · Jul 6, 2017

So maybe get rid of shrimp, or throw them in the fuge

3mm3 · Jul 6, 2017

One more odd question from me. Do you have any eunicid worms?

Robthorn · Jul 6, 2017

I would imagine there are other species of bacteria that can possibly not show brown jelly but then again I mentioned viral as well. It is something way beyond my intelligence to figure out. Sure it could still be a pest of some sort being picked up in collectors or distributors holding systems.
I have been thinking this for a while because I have been dealing with this issue for over 2 years. I did just see Julian Sprungs video from RAP where he thinks it is possible in elegance coral that a virus is what has made them difficult to keep in captivity.

pettoe90 · Jul 6, 2017

3mm3 said:
One more odd question from me. Do you have any eunicid worms?

I do not

pettoe90 · Jul 7, 2017

Robthorn said:
I would imagine there are other species of bacteria that can possibly not show brown jelly but then again I mentioned viral as well. It is something way beyond my intelligence to figure out. Sure it could still be a pest of some sort being picked up in collectors or distributors holding systems.
I have been thinking this for a while because I have been dealing with this issue for over 2 years. I did just see Julian Sprungs video from RAP where he thinks it is possible in elegance coral that a virus is what has made them difficult to keep in captivity.

Makes sense if they were doing good, nothing changed and all the sudden only my acans acting up, which I have 3 and one of them I've had for about 2 months with no issues

pettoe90 · Jul 8, 2017

Update guys, one of the acans is recovering, other 2 still look the same, haven't got worse but don't look better

Fishfinder · Jul 9, 2017

Its the peppermint shrimp. 100% I just 2 back because they wrecked my acans

Robthorn · Jul 10, 2017

So whats my 100% since I don't have shrimp?

Leadfooted · Jul 10, 2017

pettoe90 said:
Update guys, one of the acans is recovering, other 2 still look the same, haven't got worse but don't look better

From my experience Acans have a very low recover rate when they incur some some of damage. In some cases, there's nothing that can be down within reason and it's best to move on. Whether or not it was the peppermint, that dude needs to go cause it's going to kill LPS at some point undoubtably. After the shrimp's gone, grab a cheap acan frag from a LFS and see how it holds up.

RamsReef · Jul 10, 2017

Don't know but wish you luck. I usually just leave acans alone, they are tough. Now if I could figure out every other coral...

Fishfinder · Jul 10, 2017

Robthorn said:
So whats my 100% since I don't have shrimp?

I'm not sure, you don't seem to have a thread started for your problem. Maybe a little more info and we can figure it out. Im just saying his most likely culprit. Because peppermints are well known LPS eaters. My apologies; I'm 99.9% sure it's the shrimp.