Spideracan?

[guarda]

Anyone knows what's going on with my spideracan?

After lights out I noticed this white stuff attached to or from the edge of my acan and my lr. Acan is eating mysis and its polyps are always extended during daylight hours so it seems healthy. One observation; it went from 3 polyps to close to 10 now and it ran out of frag space. Could it be trying to move to the lr?

 

[fishman1069]

It looks like it trying to attack the lr. Ive seen acans defending its space against other corals but never rock lol

 

[guarda]

Interesting. Now the whole acan is up against the rock. It pulled itself about a half inch.

 

[knugenx]

very interesting...maybe it's competeing with the purplealgae (coraline) for space?

 

[Alex]

After lights out I noticed this white stuff attached to or from the edge of my acan and my lr. Acan is eating mysis and its polyps are always extended during daylight hours so it seems healthy. One observation; it went from 3 polyps to close to 10 now and it ran out of frag space. Could it be trying to move to the lr?

I hate to tell you this but you should frag that piece off. what you have is die off. something is attaching your acan and from the pic it looks like the hammer coral in the right side. trust me when I say frag that piece off and move it away.I had this happen to me, and I thought the same thing. but I acted slowly and lost the acan.

 

[guarda]

Definitely a plausible explanation. The hammer seemed a good distance but I just moved it further away. Will be watching it closely and my dremel is charged... Thanks

 

[jr973]

yea goodluck arthur I lost acans like that also it sucks jus didn't know it till it was to late

 

[guarda]

Thanks all. It has since retracted the white spiderwebs. Let's see what happens.

 

[Alex]

Thanks all. It has since retracted the white spiderwebs. Let's see what happens.

Just keep an eye on it, at times scavengers will eat the dead or dying flesh of corals, which would give you the false hope of the coral getting better until it's too late.

 

[rookie07]

I think the acan was attacking the coraline algae. But that is just my guess from the pic.

 

[jimidalock]

please keep us updated. would like to know what happens. good luck

 

[lfsmarineguy]

Those are mesentery filaments and the acan is attacking whatever is on the rock. The acan looks healthy otherwise as far as I can tell, I wouldn't worry about it. If there was another coral involved than maybe there would be a problem but this happens from time to time.

Chris Jury's blog about it