Is My Acan Cooked?

[ollysaquariums]

Hey all,
I noticed yesterday that my acan had started bleaching. I recently had one pass and no idea why as it was happy the night before then the next morning was completely bleached over. Yesterday, I saw that my acan colony was bleaching slightly in the corner but now this morning is nearly completely bleached over and mostly dead. I’m currently dipping for 15 minutes in Continuum Med Tec coral dip but I don’t think there’s any saving that can be done unfortunately. If anyone knows how I can save it please let me know as it’s one of my favourite corals but acans are just hard for me. Somehow I can’t keep acans alive but I have the happiest torch ever.
Thanks in advance!

 

[Fish & Coral Store]

unfortunately, looks cooked.

 

[ollysaquariums]

unfortunately, looks cooked.

So not even possible to save if I try frag off the last living bit?

 

[Fish & Coral Store]

So not even possible to save if I try frag off the last living bit?

Possible, looks like its skeletonized

 

[ollysaquariums]

So not even possible to save if I try frag off the last living bit?

Possible, looks like its skeletonized

Yeah nevermind I don’t have any special fragging tools I can use for LPS cause not like soft corals where simple clean scissors will do but oh well it happens I guess. My mate with a mixed reef tank can keep all corals happy but even acans are hard for him.

 

[i cant think]

Hey all,
I noticed yesterday that my acan had started bleaching. I recently had one pass and no idea why as it was happy the night before then the next morning was completely bleached over. Yesterday, I saw that my acan colony was bleaching slightly in the corner but now this morning is nearly completely bleached over and mostly dead. I’m currently dipping for 15 minutes in Continuum Med Tec coral dip but I don’t think there’s any saving that can be done unfortunately. If anyone knows how I can save it please let me know as it’s one of my favourite corals but acans are just hard for me. Somehow I can’t keep acans alive but I have the happiest torch ever.
Thanks in advance!

Out of curiosity what fish/inverts do you have?

 

[Gumbies R Us]

Let's back up for a second.
How long have you had it?
Parameters of your tank?
Anything that is bothering it?
What about your other corals? How are they doing?

 

[ollysaquariums]

Hey all,
I noticed yesterday that my acan had started bleaching. I recently had one pass and no idea why as it was happy the night before then the next morning was completely bleached over. Yesterday, I saw that my acan colony was bleaching slightly in the corner but now this morning is nearly completely bleached over and mostly dead. I’m currently dipping for 15 minutes in Continuum Med Tec coral dip but I don’t think there’s any saving that can be done unfortunately. If anyone knows how I can save it please let me know as it’s one of my favourite corals but acans are just hard for me. Somehow I can’t keep acans alive but I have the happiest torch ever.
Thanks in advance!

Out of curiosity what fish/inverts do you have?

I have 5 hermit crabs, 4 peppermint shrimp, no idea how many snails but quite a few turbo snails and trochus snails, as well as 2 strombus snails and a tuxedo urchin.

 

[ollysaquariums]

Hey all,
I noticed yesterday that my acan had started bleaching. I recently had one pass and no idea why as it was happy the night before then the next morning was completely bleached over. Yesterday, I saw that my acan colony was bleaching slightly in the corner but now this morning is nearly completely bleached over and mostly dead. I’m currently dipping for 15 minutes in Continuum Med Tec coral dip but I don’t think there’s any saving that can be done unfortunately. If anyone knows how I can save it please let me know as it’s one of my favourite corals but acans are just hard for me. Somehow I can’t keep acans alive but I have the happiest torch ever.
Thanks in advance!

Out of curiosity what fish/inverts do you have?

and for fish I have a scopas tang, pair of clowns, a banggai cardinalfish and a yellow coris wrasse

 

[Steven Garland]

There is still brown flesh,put it in super super low light,low flow and keep hermits and stuff away. Spot feed it 2x a week for the heass that are still brown. It could bounce back.

 

[ollysaquariums]

Let's back up for a second.
How long have you had it?
Parameters of your tank?
Anything that is bothering it?
What about your other corals? How are they doing?

For the first question, I’ve had it about 2 weeks only as I bought it already as a colony. Secondly, my Ca is 450ppm, KH is 7.7 dKH, Mg is 1500ppm and PO4 is 0.34ppm, it’s gone up a little as I ran out of Rowaphos so am waiting on more to arrive. In answer to the third question, I can’t think of anything that could possibly be bothering it other than my peppermint shrimp which always go right over to new corals. All of my other corals are thriving, especially my torch which is sitting in about 400 PAR. I’m wondering whether the acan is having trouble because it was in a shaded area with proper lighting but not much flow gets there meaning its tentacles may not have been able to catch food.