Acan deflation

MrDJeep123 · Jun 12, 2015

I'm thinking about moving my acans back to where they were before, with little light. I moved them to the lower portion of the tank on the rocks so that they would spread. Since I've done this, they have deflated and no longer are huge and puffy. The just look... meh. I haven't been directly feeding them as of late. I usually just broadcast feed majority of the time. So I'm just not sure if it's lighting, flow issue, lack of food, or all of the above. I'm not fond of moving them, as I glued them after taking them off the frag plugs.

Shep · Jun 13, 2015

Could just be a lot of initial stress to everything, give them time

Eckolancer · Jun 13, 2015

How low are they and do they get enough direct light? They do need more light then you would think. But could just be a moment of stress from the move down low like shep said.

Stephanie11 · Jun 13, 2015

Im thinking pest or parameters. This has happened to me before. For me it was either fire worms, spaghetti worms, astrina starfish, or something I couldn't find. I dipped all my acans, put them in my frag tank and within a couple of days they were poofy again.

Different water or no pests and they all rebounded fast!

But then this happened to all my zoas on my sand bed and not on a frag rock I have. So I'm really thinking pest.

MrDJeep123 · Jun 14, 2015

Shep said:
Could just be a lot of initial stress to everything, give them time

Stress to what? Being moved? See reply to below quote.

Eckolancer said:
How low are they and do they get enough direct light? They do need more light then you would think. But could just be a moment of stress from the move down low like shep said.

They've been there for a few months now. Maybe 2? Prior they were on the sand bed. They probably sit no more than 5" inches from where they used to sit.