Brought this guy back from certain death.

[The Beaut]

I saw this guy in a LFS, skeleton was covered in hair algae. I would never intentionally introduce hair algae in my tank, but when i saw what it was i had to try and save it. There was a lot of tissue loss but i had never seen an acan like this before so i was determined. Six months later and tissue is actually growing back over the dead skeleton.

 

[Sk8r]

Wow! Great job, and a really pretty piece!

 

[ReefDoctorMicromussas]

Thats great! Its almost just like Tyrees Bullseye echinata... check it out on his site

 

[Justin74]

That is a beut!! Makes me feel patriotic Very cool acan.

-Justin

 

[The Beaut]

thanks i will check it out

 

[The Beaut]

doctor64776,
i did not see it, could you possibly send me a link. i would love to see it. or under what section was it.

 

[The Beaut]

sorry, i saw what you talking about. But mine is a consistant purple with white stripes all over and the orange rings around the mouths.

 

[paininthewrasse]

very nice acan.. did you get a good price on it since it wasn't doing so well?

It seems pretty common at petstores I see acan thats receeding and I'd like to get it sometimes and bring it back but they'll never come down on the prices.. and I refuse to pay full price for somthing thats not in great shape..

anyway looks great and good luck w/ it!

LMK if you ever frag it :-D

 

[Bcollins111900]

nice looking acan. great job on getting it to re-grow

 

[The Beaut]

Most fish stores will drop their price if it is in bad shape, i guess it depends on your relationship with them. Acans are generally very hardy, but it is tough for any coral to compete against hair algae. I new if i could get it in a good environment it would make it. I have bought three acans like that, really damaged and covered in algae and all have made almost a full recovery.

 

[The Beaut]

Another example

Another example

When i got it.

A couple of months later

And now, no skeleton showing. This pic is bad sorry, but you get the idea

 

[ipiniowa]

That thing just has some of the most awesome color.

 

[Mildot]

Great job, !! Nice save for sure, It looks great, Good to see im not the only person who does those things aswell, lol,

 

[Snakebyt]

wow, great coral...

 

[Don Lino]

besides just placing it in your tank, what else did you do, as far as nursing it back...Great Job, by the way. You sure inspired me to do the same, or at least try.