New acan not doing so good

[Chris T.]

So i got a new acan a few days ago and everything seemed good puffed up placed about 18 inched deep seemed happy for just getting put in the tank

Today it is very shriveled up looks like there is some white skeleton showing and i saw one of my 10 peppermint shrimp digging in it.

What can i do to help this little guy

Temp is 80
Salinity is 1.023 im slowly bumping it up to 1.025 1.026
Ph is 7.8 to 8. Im fixing to get a co2 scrubber
Alk 11dkh
Calc 420
Ammonia 0
Nitrite 0
Nitrate 5ppm
P04 0 on my kit

Day i put it in

Today

 

[Reef Frog]

Your alk is a bit high for my tastes but isn't bad. But it may head higher as you adjust your salinity upward so I'd watch for that. Polyp deflation is probably a normal reaction to heavy shrimp harassment. But lighting or flow could be at work too. They often shrink up and then bounce back for seemingly no reason as well.

Have any polyps died?

 

[Chris T.]

If you look on the second pic up towards the top center it looks like there is some tissue recession and white skeleton exposed

 

[phases99]

If you look on the second pic up towards the top center it looks like there is some tissue recession and white skeleton exposed

Mine looked like that also, turned out my Kole Tang was munching it.

 

[Chris T.]

Mine looked like that also, turned out my Kole Tang was munching it.

one lawnmower blenny
2 clowns
1 skunk cleaner shrimp
9 peppermint shrimp
few hermit crabs

thats all thats in my 120 fish and invert wise other corals tho but not close to this acan
looking worse today
oh well it was only 60 ish bucks
maybe it will pull through

 

[phases99]

one lawnmower blenny
2 clowns
1 skunk cleaner shrimp
9 peppermint shrimp
few hermit crabs

thats all thats in my 120 fish and invert wise other corals tho but not close to this acan
looking worse today
oh well it was only 60 ish bucks
maybe it will pull through

I built a little eggcrate box and protected mine while trying to figure out what was going on. Once I saw the culprit I traded for a YT and all has been good. Still doesn't look like when I bought it but on the road to recovery. Hopefully yours will too.

 

[Chris T.]

Well little update
As of today when i got home looks like the acan is toast
Anyone have any idea what could have gone wrong with this guy ?

 

[oldbones]

Tank looks pretty shiny new judging by your rock and sand. I had problems with some types of corals in my newest tank (including acans) even when the water tested good. Not much fun to hear, but I might recommend trying another acan frag in a few months when the tank matures a bit.

In the mean time, maybe try some cheap, easy zoa's, paly's or LPS.

 

[Chris T.]

Thanks man. The tank has been running for over a year now i had rearranged some rock work so thats why some of them still have white showing from where they were under the sand
Im really thinking it was a peppermint shrimp
There is also quite a few other corals in there doing great but the acan just kicked it

 

[Deftones2015]

For what it's worth, I really like your rock work!

 

[rt67ghy]

Well little update
As of today when i got home looks like the acan is toast
Anyone have any idea what could have gone wrong with this guy ?

If you still have the acan skeleton I'd keep it in the tank. I got an acan 2-3 months ago and it was dead with just a little tissue left which also disappeared. A few days ago I found about 6 baby acans growing from the skeleton.

 

[Dkuhlmann]

That pedestal rock on the left side is perfect for a Gig anemone.

Is that the coral in question by the pedestal rock with the shrimp on it? Yep there's your guilty party.

 

[Chris T.]

Whats a gig anemone

 

[Chris T.]

For what it's worth, I really like your rock work!

Thanks took a couple of tries

 

[Dkuhlmann]

Whats a gig anemone

A very large beautiful Gigantea anemone. This page has them all colors.

http://www.ibluewater.com/anemone.html

 

[Chris T.]

And yes that was the coral. There is 10 of those shrimp in there

 

[Chris T.]

Do you guys think its just the one that went rogue or all of them

 

[Dkuhlmann]

No way of telling, but it's a known trait of them to do something like that. If you had only one or two wouldn't be hard to tell who was doing it.

 

[Chris T.]

Ill get another acan and use it as bait and anyone that i see messing with it is going in the sump

 

[Dkuhlmann]

That'll work!