Acan is "fluffy"

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What is going on with this acan frag? Frequently it extends these short and thin fluffy tentacle type hairs. Is this a normal behavior or something to be concerned with? You can see them in this photo on the bottom/left side of the coral verses the "normal" side on the right.
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What is going on with this acan frag? Frequently it extends these short and thin fluffy tentacle type hairs. Is this a normal behavior or something to be concerned with? You can see them in this photo on the bottom/left side of the coral verses the "normal" side on the right.
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Perfectly fine. Just feeder tentacles, shoot some mysis towards it.
 
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Doesn't look like feeder tentacles to me. Maybe I need to turn up my brightness but that looks like it's receding, showing skeleton.
On a closer inspection, you are right, looks like skeleton. I based it off the comment of "thin puffy tentacles", but it does look like it is receding which is not typical behavior.
 
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On a closer inspection, you are right, looks like skeleton. I based it off the comment of "thin puffy tentacles", but it does look like it is receding which is not typical behavior.
Is it getting blasted with light? They do better in low light, even partial shade. A double check of parameters can’t hurt either.
 
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