Blasto dying or growing?

[Bl4ckDr4g0n]

I have had this coral for a few months now and in the last few days these spines have appeared. Is it growing new skeletal structure or is it withering away?

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[heathlindner25]

Dying, sorry. Looks like it didn't take well to being fragged.

 

[Bl4ckDr4g0n]

Is there any saving it?

 

[Pandagobyguy]

Well in perfect light perfect water perfect flow it SHOULD recover but sometimes there is just no saving it.
I have seen people bring skeletons with no living tissue visible back from the dead. So it definitely can be done

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[R1ant04]

that sure does look like an acan...but yes there is a chance u can save it, just need to figure out whats wrong n correct asap. Try feeding it.

 

[Bl4ckDr4g0n]

Been feeding brine shrimp and phyto. I dont know if the bottom of the 65 gallon is too deep? Or if the halides are still too much light at the bottom, everytime ive tried setting it up on the rocks to see how it fares its always back in the sand the next day. I had him too close to the euphylia for a short period, but that was a good while ago. And the hermit crabs are forever harrassing him, but its just in the last few days he has started looking like this.

 

[Bl4ckDr4g0n]

And you are right it is a lord acan, i got confused.

 

[domb54]

you can see it wants food by its sweepers in the middle feed it some good protein salmon oysters something along those lines may help out

 

[Mekesterson]

I just bought an acan frag from my LFS a few days ago and it was showing part of the skeleton as well, I believe it was caused by stress. It is now looking nice and fluffy. Just sharing my experience with my first acan.

Bottom left is where you could see some of the ridges of the skeleton

 

[A sea K]

Falling down off the rocks repeatedly is definately not a good thing and remove the hermits to the sump as well while you try to straighten things out. Acans are pretty durable and I would think in a 65gal with 150 watt halides the lighting at the bottom should not be an issue. Also I doubt the 2 MP10 would be enough to bother them in the flow department(so long as the coral is not directly in front of the power head). I'd check your water parameters carefully and fix that if needed. If all is in check then I would expect it to recover.

 

[Jah2707]

When the skeleton is white that is new recession of the tissue. So the first picture has recently took a turn for the worse. If it were me I would get it off the sand while it was healing. Possibly just attach it to a frag plug. They do fine in the sand normally but if it isn't looking good this could help.

The second frag looks like the recession isn't recent. See how the skeleton is greenish. It should/could eventually build new skeleton and grow over that spot.

These are my experiences.