Acan question

[cchomistek]

I am wondering what it means if your acans have their feeding tentacles out all day long. Not just at night. I would think it means they are hungry. Which it could be.

Nitrates are just above zero and phosphates are at 0.012.

I have also heard it could be from too much light or too much flow.

Any thoughts?

 

[saltyfilmfolks]

There might be something tasty in the water.

 

[cchomistek]

There might be something tasty in the water.

Possibly but would it not be more likely that the nutrients are low so they are hungry?

 

[saltyfilmfolks]

Possibly but would it not be more likely that the nutrients are low so they are hungry?

Two different processes I belive.
At any time of day if you put something stinky and tasty in the tank , it provides a feeding response as they smell it.
No3 and Po4 are absorbed through the skin and also through the digestive track to feed the zoo ox.

I belive in many of these they have also evolved like Some nps to open at night when they sense a lack of light, when in the ocean is when the plankton make the great migration to surface to become snacks.