About a month ago a pick up an Acan from the LFS and it looked great it was nice and puffy but for about a week and a half it has been deflated it seems to eat when I feed it but it takes awhile for it to take it when I frist got it soon as I would try to spot feed it tentacales would come out instntly. I have a bio cube 29 with 3.36 lighting upgrade everything else in tank looks great and grow all my levels are good. Please help I love this coral! I will try to post a picture but like I said im new here so take so trial and error
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I'm new here so hello to everyone and thank you in advance for any help About a month ago a pick up an Acan from the LFS and it looked great it was nice and puffy but for about a week and a half it has been deflated it seems to eat when I feed it but it takes awhile for it to take it when I frist got it soon as I would try to spot feed it tentacales would come out instntly. I have a bio cube 29 with 3.36 lighting upgrade everything else in tank looks great and grow all my levels are good. Please help I love this coral! I will try to post a picture but like I said im new here so take so trial and error
About a month ago a pick up an Acan from the LFS and it looked great it was nice and puffy but for about a week and a half it has been deflated it seems to eat when I feed it but it takes awhile for it to take it when I frist got it soon as I would try to spot feed it tentacales would come out instntly. I have a bio cube 29 with 3.36 lighting upgrade everything else in tank looks great and grow all my levels are good. Please help I love this coral! I will try to post a picture but like I said im new here so take so trial and error
I'm assuming this is an acan "lord" type coral. If so the deflating may just be due to it trying to grow. i have multiple "acan lords" and they all do it from time to time, and usually come back with either an expanded sceleton, more heads, or both. I had my biggest colony go deflated for as much as a week before it came back. as long as all of your parameters are where they should be there should be nothing to worry about.
Thanks Tang
No dont think its a lord. anyone any ideas on exacty what type of Acan it is(maxima, meat, or maybe it is a lord etc...)
No dont think its a lord. anyone any ideas on exacty what type of Acan it is(maxima, meat, or maybe it is a lord etc...)
thats a pretty big acan it kinda looks like a lobo
how big is it in diameter?
how big is it in diameter?
its about 2in diameter
I was wondering if it might be a Scolymia, or some other type of Brain.
Doesn't look like an Acan to me.
You don't have it in high flow, do you?
They don't like that.
What light do you have, and how far is it below the light?
Doesn't look like an Acan to me.
You don't have it in high flow, do you?
They don't like that.
What light do you have, and how far is it below the light?
Looks like a Scoly to me.
QUOTE (Weetabix7 @ Nov 14 2009, 01:47 PM) 
I was wondering if it might be a Scolymia, or some other type of Brain.
Doesn't look like an Acan to me.
You don't have it in high flow, do you? [u] I have it in low to mod flow [/u]
They don't like that.
What light do you have, and how far is it below the light? I have PC 3.36 light upgrade(for now) total 108watts
at the bottom of tank
Doesn't look like an Acan to me.
You don't have it in high flow, do you? [u] I have it in low to mod flow [/u]
They don't like that.
What light do you have, and how far is it below the light? I have PC 3.36 light upgrade(for now) total 108watts
anyone else help me with my orignal post with my issue of acan(or whatever it is) being deflated.
Acan Maxima?
Blastomusa?
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