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Stil having some trouble with my acans

Jon

NJRC Member
About 10 days ago I posted a inquiry about new acans not doing well. The general consensus was that since they were new and freshly cut I should give them a little more time to heal and things should turn around. Well they haven't but they have not gotten any worse either. What is strange is that I now have an 4 month old acan now not doing so well but my orange crush acan enchinata is fantastic. I am really perplexed. Mainly because the rest of my tank is outstanding (lps, sps, and leathers)

Here are my water paremeters: PH 8.3, ammonia .10 (don't know why), nitrite 0, nitrate 0, calcium 420 - 460, alkalinity 8 - 9, magnesium 1400. Salinity 1.025, temp. is usually 80.5 - 81.5 depending on time of day.

None of my acans are receding but they do not inflate and this is diving me crazy. I have moved them into the shade hoping this might help them out, but it has not.

I usually spot feed them cyclopeeze / mysis shrimp twice a week but have not tried in about a week. I gave the DT's about 5 days ago and they usually respond fairly well to this but it did nothing.

I also did a 20% water change about 5 days ago hoping that this may wake them up but it did not. After the initial water change they began swelling up a bit but, by the next day they went back to there stagnant state.

Any ideas??? Has anyone ever had something like this before???
 
they are no where near your echinatas right? the Lords didnt get stung by the echinatas? take some pics..no flesh is comin off right? try placing them in an area where flow isnt so high..
 

Jon

NJRC Member
The acans are not near the enchinata and the flesh is still good. They are not in a high flow area and were once very happy where they were. ???
 

JohnS_323

Officer Emeritus
Officer Emeritus
We're in this boat too all of a sudden. I've had acans thriving for years and all of a sudden they don't look very good. ALL of them are closed up tightly, expect the orange crush and agent orange.

If I figure out what our problem is I'll post it, but right now I'm stumped. . .
 
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