Ocellaris eating acan or something else?

[Jonahjls]

I have seen my Ocellaris picking at my acan the past few days. Is the fish causing the damage or reacting to it. What do u think? Maybe from another coral too close? U can see a piece missing from the polyps in a couple of places.

Inhabitants
2 turbos
1 porcelain crab
2 blue legged hermits
1 cerith
1 ocellaris

ricordea
duncan
3 acan
frogspawn
torch
shrooms
blasto

 

[krzyphsygy]

The acan looks inflated like its not being picked at. Usually when corals experience a problem they close up or deflate especially if a fish is picking at it.

I have ownded many ocellaris clowns over the years and NEVER had one try and eat any coral in my tank. I would say it could be possible, but very unlikely. If any thing is eating it I would watch the crabs. How long have you had the acan? Maybe the acan was eating something that the clown was interested in eating.

 

[HunterBryan]

Those are sweet acans! If you don't mind me asking where did you get them at? And i have a couple acans I see my crabs on them more then anything

 

[Jonahjls]

Those are sweet acans! If you don't mind me asking where did you get them at? And i have a couple acans I see my crabs on them more then anything

Thank you, I dont mind. I got them from premiere reef. U can find them on facebook. I was there 2 weeks ago to pick up the green torch and they still had tons of acans. I think they have 7 color varieties. The rainbow(cyan) acans are my favorite. I plan on gluing all of my frags to the same rock so they can fuse together.

 

[HunterBryan]

yea that'll look awesome! acans are one of my favorite corals. have you had good growth in your acans?

 

[Jonahjls]

yea that'll look awesome! acans are one of my favorite corals. have you had good growth in your acans?

The orange acan has been in my tank for 1 month. It has grown from 8 heads to 11. The blasto has the best growth from 10 to 18! I did see better growth on the acan when I was using a 5850k bulb. I haven't noticed any new acan heads since I switched to led but the missing flesh is nearly healed and unnoticeable

 

[HunterBryan]

dang thats good! I cant wait to upgrade in a month so i can get better lighting because i dont think my lighting is real good right now for all my coral! glad to hear your acan healed pretty quick.