Acan Lord Feeding Response Variations...

ginoandres · May 26, 2016

So I'm new to Acans. Well, I'm new to reefing in general. Currently I have what I suspect are four different Acan Lords in my tank, as pictured. I acquired the first three pieces maybe a week or two ago, and the fourth Rainbow Acan I've had for maybe 1-2 months. The Rainbow Acan behaves a lot differently than the others. Almost within 24 hours of its arrival in my tank, it was fluffed up with tentacles extended all day and into the evening. It eats Mysis eagerly within maybe 5-10 minutes. Awesome piece that made me fall in love with Acans right away.

Now the first three pictured Acans, however, have been different. Tentacles are not extended at all, except at night. Even then, the tentacles are much shorter, if at all visible. These Acans also do not have much of a feeding response at all... one of them did eat some mysis but it was very slow to do so, without any tentacle extension. That took probably 30 minutes in total.

So my question is this: are these just different types of Acans? Or is the Rainbow Acan just more healthy? Do these newer pieces just need time to acclimate? Or is this type of behavior just the way some behave? I was under the impression these were all Acan Lords and expected similar behavior from all of them...

Input welcome

Sabellafella · May 26, 2016

ginoandres said:
So I'm new to Acans. Well, I'm new to reefing in general. Currently I have what I suspect are four different Acan Lords in my tank, as pictured. I acquired the first three pieces maybe a week or two ago, and the fourth Rainbow Acan I've had for maybe 1-2 months. The Rainbow Acan behaves a lot differently than the others. Almost within 24 hours of its arrival in my tank, it was fluffed up with tentacles extended all day and into the evening. It eats Mysis eagerly within maybe 5-10 minutes. Awesome piece that made me fall in love with Acans right away.

Now the first three pictured Acans, however, have been different. Tentacles are not extended at all, except at night. Even then, the tentacles are much shorter, if at all visible. These Acans also do not have much of a feeding response at all... one of them did eat some mysis but it was very slow to do so, without any tentacle extension. That took probably 30 minutes in total.

So my question is this: are these just different types of Acans? Or is the Rainbow Acan just more healthy? Do these newer pieces just need time to acclimate? Or is this type of behavior just the way some behave? I was under the impression these were all Acan Lords and expected similar behavior from all of them...

Input welcome

There all healthy and look great. i collect acans, and now that you brought this to my attention, everytime i get a new lord it will usually always have its polyps extended at night. All my previous lords with always be fully extended because there accustomed to my fish feeding schedual(assuming). Just after the new addition settles in, itll start acting just like all the others(with the exception of maybe 1 that wouldnt look "plump")

ginoandres · May 26, 2016

Sabellafella said:
There all healthy and look great. i collect acans, and now that you brought this to my attention, everytime i get a new lord it will usually always have its polyps extended at night. All my previous lords with always be fully extended because there accustomed to my fish feeding schedual(assuming). Just after the new addition settles in, itll start acting just like all the others(with the exception of maybe 1 that wouldnt look "plump")

Thanks man. They actually look better than this now, more full and plump, but these were the most recent photos I had on my phone. It's good to hear they might just need more acclimating. Got any pics of your acans?