New Acan in tank for 3 weeks skeleton showing through tissue

[FishAreFriends2]

I got a acan a while ago and so far its not looking to hot. The skeleton is showing through to the tissue and I don't know what to do. Its been like this for 3 weeks. Anyone have any suggestions? It was freshly fragged when I picked it up. And I have tried to feed it, it doesn't seem interested.

 

[Justin74]

Sounds like its shocked. As long as it's not receding your still in the game. Even then it may recede back a little, as it attempts to "regroup". But at the 3 week point you should be seeing some darkening in color. Sounds like(without knowing anything about your setup and shootin blanks in the dark ) that it could be one of 2 thing; is getting too much light, at least in terms of what it was getting before your tank..Or, it's not getting enough..

-Justin

 

[All Delight]

Acan are pretty tough. But 3 weeks is pretty long for it to be like that. Do you have any pics?

 

[FishAreFriends2]

I tried to feed it yesterday and for the first time it oozed out something goldish yellow. like slime. any idea what it is?

 

[ct_vol]

What is your stock list??? Something may be picking at it...

 

[FishAreFriends2]

A pair of clowns, a royal granma, 3 green chromis's and a dwarf angel. But the dwarf angel has not touched anything.
Seeing it was such a pain to use a turkey baster to feed the acan, I brought the food to its mouth by hand and it clinged on f a while and I think I saw the feeders come out. Than it oozed out this yellow gold slim.

 

[JM68]

that dwarf angel could very well be doing it even though u dont think it is. My potters went on a rampage and none of my micros opened for about 2 weeks before i removed them and put them in another tank. now they r fine. I never saw the angel pick either, but from the day i put it in till the day i took the micros out they were closed.

 

[Mental1]

Yellow gold slime sounds bad -- do you a QT tank you could move it to? You could quickly set one up using water from your display ...

 

[The_Browns]

<a href=showthread.php?s=&postid=12401850#post12401850 target=_blank>Originally posted</a> by Mental1
Yellow gold slime sounds bad -- do you a QT tank you could move it to? You could quickly set one up using water from your display ...

You will also need some type of established filter media to keep the water params in check in the QT

 

[FishAreFriends2]

but it stopped oozing that stuff afterwards. Its only done it once. :hmm:

 

[FishAreFriends2]

I'd like to know if theres too much flow can it cause the acan to be messed up? It came from a tank with 4x65w T5. I am currently using a 250w mh SE. Could it be too much light? Everything else in my tank is doing fine but this one just puzzles me...

 

[JM68]

Do you have it in the upper part of the tank. I would move it to the bottom because that much of a light increase can cause problems. Not sying thats the problem, but you should always light acclimate your corals when you know they r coming from a lesser light situation. I still put my money on that angel as the cause of the problem.

 

[FishAreFriends2]

Hmm I thought that 4x65 = 260w which is more than my halide doesn't that mean I don't have to acclimate it? I'll look into the angel but I have never seen it pick at it. Throughout the day and I even check when the lights are out.

 

[Mental1]

Remember the important thing about lights is the par at various levels in the tank. The par under MH is a lot higher than T5. I have 5x39w T5's 6 inches above the water in a 24 inch deep tank and my acans are on the bottom shaded by a gorgonian! And they are happy campers ... If the coral is acting sad -- move it down.

 

[FishAreFriends2]

Alright I'll look for a shadded area to give it a try. I hope it does recover.