Acan frag

mekesterson93 · Oct 3, 2016

Hello again, I just picked up my first acan frag from my LFS yesterday, just wondering if anyone with experience could give me some tips on growing them and tell me if they look healthy or not. Thanks in advance!

singleshot · Oct 3, 2016

Hello they look like they are still adjusting to your tank, they look fine. You can feed them or just leave them alone and let them do their own thing, I feed mine shrimp and pellets from time to time and it seems like they grow a new head the next day.

Hunt3r · Oct 3, 2016

+1 they are still adjusting. Mine eats whatever my fish drops pellets, brine and mysis. The more fluffy or plump they are i think they are happy. Make sure no corals will fall on them because for sure they'll eat them. My blasto fell on one of my acan heads and ripped almost half of the head of my blasto.

mekesterson93 · Oct 3, 2016

Thanks guys, appreciate the advice!

mekesterson93 · Oct 4, 2016

ahiggins · Oct 5, 2016

They look great, I love my acans. Rainbows are my all time fav! lol
I feed reef roids to mine-they will eat anything thats dropped on their feelers.
I had a TON of luck with reef roids bringing back my acans after a massive bout of tissue recession from my last order.

They grow faster when placing them on a flat surface as opposed to sand. Plus, my sand sifters always kicked sand on them and made their feelers retract.
Good luck

mekesterson93 · Oct 6, 2016

ahiggins said:
They look great, I love my acans. Rainbows are my all time fav! lol
I feed reef roids to mine-they will eat anything thats dropped on their feelers.
I had a TON of luck with reef roids bringing back my acans after a massive bout of tissue recession from my last order.

They grow faster when placing them on a flat surface as opposed to sand. Plus, my sand sifters always kicked sand on them and made their feelers retract.
Good luck

Thanks! Where do you think would be better to place them other than sand??

ahiggins · Oct 6, 2016

I had two that I placed on frag disks, mid tank. They grow like crazy-5-10 heads every other week lol but theyre babies.
I had 3 that were placed on regular frag plugs and they grow babies on the side of the original skeleton (bandsaw was used to cut colony). Theyre placed in mid/top tank on a frag rack.

Once they grow over the frag plug, Ill drill a small hole in a piece of live rock (probably mid/top tank) and just fit them to that.
The whole goal-for me anyway-was to get them to grow fast. To do that you need them to spread without having the build a skeleton, ie using the rock/plug as a surrogate skeleton. Make sense?
As long as they can spread horizontally without having to build a skeleton to get to the next flat area, they will spread fast.
Hope this helps.

mekesterson93 · Oct 6, 2016

ahiggins said:
I had two that I placed on frag disks, mid tank. They grow like crazy-5-10 heads every other week lol but theyre babies.
I had 3 that were placed on regular frag plugs and they grow babies on the side of the original skeleton (bandsaw was used to cut colony). Theyre placed in mid/top tank on a frag rack.

Once they grow over the frag plug, Ill drill a small hole in a piece of live rock (probably mid/top tank) and just fit them to that.
The whole goal-for me anyway-was to get them to grow fast. To do that you need them to spread without having the build a skeleton, ie using the rock/plug as a surrogate skeleton. Make sense?
As long as they can spread horizontally without having to build a skeleton to get to the next flat area, they will spread fast.
Hope this helps.

Ohh okay, makes sense. Thanks! I have a question.. so I put an ati blue+ in my t5 light fixture in the place of a 10k.. and my acans kind of look like death?

JaimeAdams · Oct 6, 2016

You are correct that the Micromussa lordhowensis that you are referring to as an acan of which they used to be classified does not look happy. It is probably just adjusting to the new light spectrum. The blue+ bulb is what most people would tell you in the bulb of choice for growing Micromussa lordhowensis. Give it time and it should respond favorably.

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sil40sx · Oct 6, 2016

Mine looked like that for two weeks. I thought it was dead. You can barely see some polyps.

Let me see if I can find an old picture.

Avoid moving it often. They're very sensitive, at least mine is. Whenever I move mine, it takes couple days to one week before it extends its polyps back.

mekesterson93 · Oct 6, 2016

JaimeAdams said:
You are correct that the Micromussa lordhowensis that you are referring to as an acan of which they used to be classified does not look happy. It is probably just adjusting to the new light spectrum. The blue+ bulb is what most people would tell you in the bulb of choice for growing Micromussa lordhowensis. Give it time and it should respond favorably.

Thanks for your input! I moved it back a little to she it a little from the light until it gets a little acclimated to the light.. was that a bad call on my part??