Acan lord polyps gone.....

[Crib]

Sat. I took home from the meeting 2 polyps of an acan lord.
On Sunday I noticed that the smaller polyp was missing, I looked to see if it came off its mount no luck..
Monday I noticed that the only other polyp was half eaten.
Today It is totally gone


what ate the acan polyps?

fish are:
1 purple tang
1 foxface
1 firefish
1 skunk clown
1 algea blenny
1 large sallie lightfoot
1 coral banded shrimp
CUC

Thanks
Barry

 

[smithcreek]

I watched my emerald crab take a few bites off a colony of mine once. It was scary watching him rip hunks off. I saw him do it twice, but never did enough damage to worry, but there were 20-25 polyps.

 

[iandawson]

sorry to hear that barry. i would guess the inverts or foxface, but just a guess. strange because you already had other acans in there as well as blasto. maybe the frag itself was in poor condition and not eaten?

 

[wrassefan]

Barry
is it the flesh only so the skeleton remained? wonder if it melted and just dissolved...how fast did you acclimate? dramatic salinity and ph changes can kill lps quickly

 

[vinny]

Barry
is it the flesh only so the skeleton remained? wonder if it melted and just dissolved...how fast did you acclimate? dramatic salinity and ph changes can kill lps quickly

I think this happened to me.

 

[Aquaman_68]

My tomani tang was picking at my lords when I was under feeding him..& my PT was wacking my Palys when he was under fed...Tough to tell by your explanation if it was eaten or it just bailed....Did it appear to have any flesh hanging? (as andy mentioned?) you have other lords in the tank right now?? Yes???
Fill us in...
B

 

[JayM]

SLF ate a whole colony of my zoas.....about 40 polyps of blue zoas. By the time I caught the little SOB, they were gone. previously it had picked at algae on them, then it just started shredding the colony. kept going back til I caught it.

 

[Crib]

Barry
is it the flesh only so the skeleton remained? wonder if it melted and just dissolved...how fast did you acclimate? dramatic salinity and ph changes can kill lps quickly

Never saw the small polyp flesh, it was gone, but the larger polyp had been reduced by half the size like it had been eaten or melted then all gone with the smallest,tiniest of flesh avail.call it nothing left

I have also seen in the past 1 polyp of my candy cane just dangling, and the sallie light foot just happen to be right in the area. I think the SLF might be under feed, not much to eat in the tank. IMO I would like to remove the SLF.

I do have another acan in the tank for a long time now.

I have never lost a frag on acclimation "Knock on wood"

 

[Aquaman_68]

Barry,
If the other acan has been fine I would lean toward either acclimation or too much of a difference in tank conditions causing stress....

B

 

[Reef55]

Barry, sorry to hear it didn't make it

Well, the frag came out of my tank, conditions at the time the coral was bagged:

salinity - 1.026
temp - 77.0 F
calcium - 400 ppm
alkalinity - 7 dkh
magnesium - 1350 ppm
phosphate - 0.03
nitrate - 0

Both small and large polyps were fully healed over, open and feeding in my tank.

 

[pvh]

Barry,
If the other acan has been fine I would lean toward either acclimation or too much of a difference in tank conditions causing stress....

B

I agreed with B. Either you acclimated it too fast or dipped it too much. Because I got the same acan from Reef55 and it's doing great in my tank.

 

[Reef55]

Barry, I'll check and see if you are at the next meeting I'm at. Not sure what happened, but I'll bring you something to replace it (although it might not be the acan, as I don't have any more frags right now).

 

[Crib]

Thanks to everyone who replied.

here is a picture



Mark, thanks for the consideration.