Acan is pulling away from its skeleton?

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  1. crustytheclown

    crustytheclown Eyelash Blennie

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    It looks like my acan is pulling away from its frag/skeleton. It is in a rather high flow area. It has been fine with the flow but i just noticed this today?
    Should i re direct the flow from the flow heads of turn them off?
    What would you do?
    [​IMG]:confused:
     
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  3. 2in10

    2in10 Super Moderator

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    You definitely need to reduce the flow whether you change the direction or move the coral.
     
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    crustytheclown Eyelash Blennie

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    crustytheclown Eyelash Blennie

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    i moved it to a new place with less flow. But it is about ready to come completely off of the skeleton! It still puffs up and looks good but soon will be floating around? What should i do? Can you make them re attach to something? Will it survive off the skeleton? I dont know how it is still living and looking good? It is feeding too?
    Help
     
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    It is a dry heat, yeah right !
  7. crustytheclown

    crustytheclown Eyelash Blennie

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    wow so it could survive? Ok well ill just keep feeding it. Should i put it into something to keep it from floating away in the current? I was thinking like a shot glass with some bridal veil netting over the top?
     
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    It is a dry heat, yeah right !
    That it still up to debate, some say yes some say no. But it certainly can not hurt to try, and then you have your own anecodotal story to tell and share.
     
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    My frogspawn did this a while ago, and pieces started growing in the sand!
     
  11. libog2fish

    libog2fish Fire Shrimp

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    I have 4 heads of bright green candy cane frags that I'm noticing the same affect...the skeleton is showing and I noticed it was doing great in my nano but when i moved all my corals into my 83 I noticed he was stressing...does anyone know what's going on...
    I noticed 1 thing though that it was beside a bunch of hairy green shrooms...
    do you guys think that the shrooms when extending stung the frag,because it was drooping over the candy and when the lights go out of course the shrooms retract into small pots..and that's the first indication of the frag loosing it's flesh...:(
     
  12. crustytheclown

    crustytheclown Eyelash Blennie

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    so what should i do with the un anchored acan? It is just in a shot glass now with some netting over it. it is extending and eating?