HELP! My Acan Garden Needs Your Help

[Kelli Todd]

Hello! Over the past few weeks I’ve notice all of my acans have started to recede. I did the normal thing and tested all of my params which checked out. Haven’t had any swings in temp, PH, etc according to my apex. A few days ago I decided to investigate for the hundredth time at night to see if I could see anything eating the tissue and boom, I see all these super tiny like microscope termite looking bugs on every single acan that has recession. Please tell me someone has had this same problem and has beat it.

Salinity: 1.025
Temp: 78
Cal: 430
Mag: 1350
Alk: 9
Nitrate: 10

 

[Lovemyreef2015]

Do you by any chance have any peppermint shrimp? Ours loved to destroy our acans

 

[Crabs McJones]

What lighting are they under, and what do you have for fish?

 

[ot7]

If you could get a pic of those bugs that would help.

Do you have any peppermint shrimp or a bicolor blenny? Anything new you've added in the past few weeks?
Also, try dipping them either with some type of coral dip, might help.

 

[Jimbo662]

What are your phos levels?

 

[Kelli Todd]

No peppermints, learned that the hard way a little over a year ago.

I have them under 2x Prime HDs on the sand bed in an IM40.

Fish: clown, chromis, six line and hawkfish

I haven’t added anything new in a few months.

I plan to do a Bauer dip tonight on all of my LPS. Was hoping someone had the same problem at some point and could tell me how they beat it.

Sorry for replying this way but I got an error when trying to reply individually.

 

[Kelli Todd]

Literally that tiny white spec in the red circle is the bug. You can see them running around in the vid but you can post videos here.

 

[CjnBrn2]

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[Kelli Todd]

Phos is .08