my first acro

Well, my montis have been growing so well, i decided to give an acro a go.

Not pirticularly colourful but it came with a gorg acro crab so i got it, altho i misjudged its size and realized i had no where for it to go lol



Should i be worried its so close to my clam?

 

It wont always be that colour IMO -could be any colour ultimately - I have given up trying to predict

some novice opinions

Id be more concerned with the Xenia than with the proximity of the clam
if it where mine, I would thin out some Xenia and create space for the 1st of many SPS corals (prediction)

IM limited E - SPS appreciate far more water movement than the Xenia will be happy in,
and also IME more than the Clam would like


Steve

 

Thanks for the advice, its actually in direct flow of a powerhead so i think the flow is grand.

As far as the xenia goes, id be happy if the acro kiilled it all...... its a devil in my tank.

 

Looks Verrry nice! It should still color up at least a little...
Getting a free crab is cool tho!

 

ha ha i've killed it already!



I guess my tank cant do acros - altho i suspect this is a result of my messing around with it yesterday trying to epoxy it down!

I was wondering tho can a acro crab live on a monti

 

Maybe lower it down a bit....what kind of lights are you running!

You may get lucky still and it may come back....or not go all the way!

 

wow they bleach that fast?

 

Might not be you, could be a disease like RTN. That causes the coral to go white really fast. I had a stylo turn completely white in less than a day from RTN.

Does it look like the tissue is flaking/sloughing off, or is it just that it's bleaching?

 

That was my first reaction, but its stuck down now and i fear that moving it will only make it worse. x4 T5s
I reckon by the morning it will be bleached completely.

Yep, in the wild when mass bleaching occurs, that happens over night.

 

Ermm yeah it does a bit, maybe it is RTN then.