Acans eaten alive

[Schramstein]

Something or someone is killing my acans it was going great for like 2 years and now in like a month i am losing it. Nothing has actually changed a lot but what can normally cause this problem with acans? All other acans are great only this offcourse “ultra” piece is losing it.

 

[CoralB]

What inverts do you have ? Have your parameters gone astray ? What fish if any do you have ? Did you recently dose anything ? Change in lighting ? Change in salt ? Water quality? Exhausted RODI ?

 

[vetteguy53081]

Something or someone is killing my acans it was going great for like 2 years and now in like a month i am losing it. Nothing has actually changed a lot but what can normally cause this problem with acans? All other acans are great only this offcourse “ultra” piece is losing it.

I believe this is a chemistry issue and not of one being eaten.
Assure the following has not become elevated:
Calcium
salinity
nitrates
ph
temperature

Change in lighting

Black or grey bugs

 

[Mr. Mojo Rising]

I caught hermits eating my acan once before being banished

 

[EeyoreIsMySpiritAnimal]

That looks like progressive tissue recession. I would expect a more random pattern of damage if something was eating it...
Maybe a parameter swing in the recent past?

 

[DHill6]

Check your MG, mine were looking bad, ready to remove them until I tested MG, it was low. They’ve rebounded.

 

[old salt reefer]

Do you or anything else in the tank injury the acan in anyway? If so amphipods can and will cause this dyeing to happen. First they eat the dead tissue right to the edge of the health tissue damaging it so it dies and so on and so forth until the whole acan is gone. Been there seen that.

 

[Yanir34]

Are you dosing :
nopox or any type of carbon?
amino acids ?
what are your ph and temperature readings?
salinity ?

 

[V A R I A N T]

Have any Peppermint Shrimp? I’ve had Peppermints go after Acans in the past.

 

[Schramstein]

What inverts do you have ? Have your parameters gone astray ? What fish if any do you have ? Did you recently dose anything ? Change in lighting ? Change in salt ? Water quality? Exhausted RODI ?

I did not change anything actually, this is one tank on my system and all other acans have no issues at all in the samr tank. In the systhem there are fish but in this tank there aren’t any only a urchin.

 

[Schramstein]

Have any Peppermint Shrimp? I’ve had Peppermints go after Acans in the past.

No peppermints in the tank, yes i also had this problem before with the acans and shrimps.

 

[Schramstein]

Are you dosing :
nopox or any type of carbon?
amino acids ?
what are your ph and temperature readings?
salinity ?

No nopox or carbon, running on triton, temperature 25 and salinity 1.026 no changes in fact.

 

[Schramstein]

Do you or anything else in the tank injury the acan in anyway? If so amphipods can and will cause this dyeing to happen. First they eat the dead tissue right to the edge of the health tissue damaging it so it dies and so on and so forth until the whole acan is gone. Been there seen that.

Not really, it is not touching any other coral and i dont have amy fish or inverts who could harm the coral.

 

[Schramstein]

Check your MG, mine were looking bad, ready to remove them until I tested MG, it was low. They’ve rebounded.

I tested magnesium that says 1450 1500 salifert. A few weeks ago my calcium dropped to 390, but strange thing is i have a few acans and only one has this problem.

 

[Schramstein]

That looks like progressive tissue recession. I would expect a more random pattern of damage if something was eating it...
Maybe a parameter swing in the recent past?

Yes calcium dropped , but not that much, to 390 istead of 450