Acan Lovers - Let's Discuss Feeding!

[El Fantasma]

Acrylic straw with a funnel attached to the top to drop pellets into.

 

[thewackyreefer]

I've found that a medicine dropper with the hole widened a little is good for feeding the pellets as well. Suck a couple up and just squeeze a little to make one come out.

I feed a little bit of everything...pellets, mysis, oyster feast and cyclops.

 

[E.intheC]

I feed my acans (and most of my lps really) frozen mysis. I do this 2-3x per week, and will probably increase that once I get my skimmer working in tip top shape again. My dendro is the main reason for the increase though. The lps would be fine with weekly feedings or less IMO.

For those feeding the powder type foods-- How do you prep the food? Other than adding a small amount of ro/di water to make a paste, I'm not sure how that would work.

 

[josh4107]

I feed mine frozen rods food whenever I feed that to the fish which is usually 2-3 times a week. I just try and give the larger chunks to my lps and they seem to like it and accept it no problem. I think they'd eat anything though haha

 

[FMF0331]

Whenever i get a chance i spot feed my acans, pellets - mysis - chopped up silvesides - etc ... All are doing well and super healthy.

 

[reefhobo]

Does anyone have success even with no feeding. I had this happen to me before where an acan colony grew 8 polyps but then it withered away slowly after that. No feeding at all.

 

[itwired]

Fauna Marin Lps with tube i made I drop pellets directly on head and I just started using reef Energy by red sea

 

[NoStRaThOmAs]

Coral frenzy, mysis, and sometimes shaved frozen strips of squid/clam mixture from Hikari. I didn't see any heads pop up on my 1-2 head acan frags until I started spot feeding.

 

[renato120]

I feed mine once a week with mysis bloodworm, pallets and brine all mixed! I have 15 different ones, some with 2.5 inch head! They are doing awesome... Baby heads growing on all of them.

 

[EzraZamir]

I feed coral fenzy pellets two times a week. Started with 3 heads 6 months ago and had no growth until I started spot feeding a month ago. Now is have 9 baby heads growing!

 

[RareEarthCorals]

Brightwell Microvore my Acans love it, fully open and extended. Heads everywhere, best of all no refrigeration!

 

[DrBoxedWine]

Does anyone have success even with no feeding. I had this happen to me before where an acan colony grew 8 polyps but then it withered away slowly after that. No feeding at all.

I haven't fed mine in a couple months. I haven't noticed any ill effects. I did some research on it, and people seem to report good results unless it's like a sun (tube) coral or something that requires food. I was just looking to lighten the maintenance load a bit, and that seemed like a good way to do that.