acan turning to jelly...

[TRIGGERMAN]

I have no idea what is going on I was away for a few days,came back and 1 of my nicest acan colonies was like brown jelly when most lps die this is what happens as many of you know. First it was 1/3 then 1/2 I blew it off in the powerhead and put it back. Now more of it is dying. I have no idea what's going on with this piece..params are spot on and everything in the tank is PERFECT. I haven't done anything different to the tank,haven't added any corals in months.

This ever happen to anyone?

 

[rebelson]

Happened to a torch of mine a while back. Out of nowhere it just started dying for no reason.

 

[TRIGGERMAN]

yea it happened to an awesome froggy I had also about 6 months ago when I was still in Bayside. Weird though..never knew what happened. Everything else was always good. I'm going to feed everything and do a water change tomorrow hopefully I can save some of it.

 

[Salty Dog]

take it out off your tank and dip it, while dipping it take a baster and squirt off the dead tissue , put it back into your tank, add more flow

 

[straightjiggy10]

Did u frag it lately it could have gotten an infection if blade wasn't sharp enough...

 

[OGGISPORTS]

Did u frag it lately it could have gotten an infection if blade wasn't sharp enough...

+1
Or sometimes they just get the infection with out fraging them for other reason

 

[basiab]

I also had a nice 3 color acan of about 15 heads do that. I put it down at the bottom and 4 heads remained. They were barely visiable but they slowly came back. Now I have four nice sized heads and 2 new babies. I had another one do that and nothing was left alive. I n both cases I had other acans and all were fine. So hope for the best.

 

[TRIGGERMAN]

Nope guys I haven't fragged anything in my tank recently I was planning on doing that today! Ugh, well I just checked them right now they looks fine I don't see any jelly so maybe I blew everything off last night and it's done dying for now. It's a really bad ass acan too even has 2 color patterns. Prob lost about 40 heads though. WEEEEEEEEEEEEEAKKKKKKKK!

 

[straightjiggy10]

If it was close to a chalice/mushroom/sps or competing acan for space they fight and that's the result of the losing acan too

 

[TRIGGERMAN]

Jigs,nothing was close enough to touch it lol it's a total mystery.

 

[jerl77]

check for bugs?????????

 

[jerl77]

look like this ?

 

[TRIGGERMAN]

now it does..it's skeleton lol some heads are still good. What kinda bugs gona eat acans? And yes I did inspect it, I only saw a few bristle worms on it prob just eating the dead tissue.

 

[jerl77]

dip it see if these black bugs craw out of them? let one sit in the dip aliite longer see what happins

now it does..it's skeleton lol some heads are still good. What kinda bugs gona eat acans? And yes I did inspect it, I only saw a few bristle worms on it prob just eating the dead tissue.

 

[TRIGGERMAN]

black bugs eh? I'll see but I duno where they could have came from so I highly doubt it and everything else is good. Haven't added a piece of coral in several months. I did notice a small hole in 1 of the heads of teh skeleton but figured maybe it was from the bristle worms. What are these bugs called? I'd like to read up on them.

 

[jerl77]

try this
http://www.reef2reef.com/forums/gen...28-potential-lps-acan-pests-unveiled-big.html

 

[jerl77]

i lost almost all my frags one year

 

[TRIGGERMAN]

interesting thread buddy,I hate bristle worms I have a ton of them. Even before I moved I probably took out at least 100 if not more. I have been busy as hell and lazy too lately lol so I haven't been feeding that much I'm sure it's possible those little mofos were eating the acan. I actually thought that when I saw the hole.

 

[jerl77]

dip them see what you get buddy

 

[TRIGGERMAN]

just bristle worms but they were in some of the skeleton. I also saw some of them coming out of a living blasto colony I have that goes back and forth between looking good and not so good. My next step will be trying to get rid of bristle worms I prob have thousands of them.

Anyone want free bristle worms for their fuge? lol