Red Acan Lord Not growing well

[03sonicstang]

Question; I've had a Red Acan Lord for about 4 months now and it was looking good, inflated, eating, etc....but in the last couple of weeks its not inflating and looking bad in my opinion. Not to mention the coral really has not grown all but (2) additional heads....

One thing that may be an issue is I have Xenia grown over...not close at all, but over the lord. Could there be a chemical war issue?

The lord is about 6-8" off the bottom

All other corals look good, zoa's, SPS, leathers and other LPS's

Lighting is a (3) 150MH 14K /(4) 96W PC in a 180 gallon 24 deep tank
.025 salinity
0 Nitrite
0 Amo
0 Po4
460-500 Calcium
1200-1300 mag
11-12 alk
8.1 PH

Let me know any thoughts or suggestions??

Thanks
Tom

 

[Tek]

The acan would sting anything else usually before itself would be. Mine actually started to grow faster when I placed it on the sand bed in a less lit area.

 

[03sonicstang]

The acan would sting anything else usually before itself would be. Mine actually started to grow faster when I placed it on the sand bed in a less lit area.

Thank you for your response; going to try that....he looks like crap!

I thought with only 150W in a 24" deep tank the light was not that intense!

Tom

 

[Tek]

I have a 17" tank with 150W. I also feed coral frenzy and dose Combisan.

 

[03sonicstang]

I've never did anything but spot feed my corals with a Turkey Baster. I might try that Coral Frenzy..>Thank you for your suggestions and comments!

 

[Cahooligan]

+1 on moving it to the sandbed. im only running a 4 t5 bulbs on my 75g, and all of my acans are on the sandbed and they are the fastest growing corals i have. in 4 months, mine will all grow 10-15 new heads at least. ive never had any issues with aggression or chemical warfare issues, and my water quality isnt as good as yours. IMO they seem pretty tough, so i really dont know.. i read somewhere that they do best on the sandbed though, but i dont remember where...

 

[03sonicstang]

They finally opened up and inflated yesterday. Still going to move them tonight....one question....I have a fine sand bed with some grains floating at times from my Blenny and Goby....do you think that would affect the Acan?

Thank you for the replies!

 

[ricardoz]

my goby also do that, but it seems not affect the Acan, that open even covered with sands

 

[Crush Coral]

I have a small colony on the sand bed. I moved it from one end of the tank which is the farthest from direct sun light, to the end closest to direct sun light. Though the tank only gets sunlight for about 1 1/2 hours, the acans went from red to pink to nearly white. Moved them back to the end furthest from the sunlight. I can not believe they went from red to almost white.