Acans Slow Growth

[JAMSOURY]

Anyone else experience slow growth for acans? I have an sps dominated tank and everything grows well but my acans don’t really do anything for some reason.

 

[DeniableArc]

Do you feed them fleshy food?

 

[ZipAdeeZoa]

Anyone else experience slow growth for acans? I have an sps dominated tank and everything grows well but my acans don’t really do anything for some reason.

Are you feeding them at all? acans and most other lps that I've dealt with haven't shown significant growth without being fed, I use vitalis pellets but any lps pellet or even frozen foods should work. I feed once a week or two but I'm surre you could feed more frequently (although I wouldn't feed everyday so they could digest their last meal, maybe once every 3 days as long as your making sure your not raising your No3/po4.

 

[JAMSOURY]

Are you feeding them at all? acans and most other lps that I've dealt with haven't shown significant growth without being fed, I use vitalis pellets but any lps pellet or even frozen foods should work. I feed once a week or two but I'm surre you could feed more frequently (although I wouldn't feed everyday so they could digest their last meal, maybe once every 3 days as long as your making sure your not raising your No3/po4.

I see! I may need to give that a try. I swear it’s been about 6 months in this tank, multiple acans, and almost no growth lol

 

[DeniableArc]

I see! I may need to give that a try. I swear it’s been about 6 months in this tank, multiple acans, and almost no growth lol

I feed vitalis lps pellets to my acans Scolymia lobo torches and blasto once per week and I always get a good feeding response. If I don’t feed my Scolymia it definitely tells me.

 

[Daniel@R2R Verified Admin]

If nutrient levels are lower, target feeding may definitely help.

 

[ZipAdeeZoa]

I see! I may need to give that a try. I swear it’s been about 6 months in this tank, multiple acans, and almost no growth lol

I had the same issue you with my blastomussa corals until I started my weekly feedings, I was sitting on the same 1 head and one really tiny head for about 6 months with very little change. Since I started feeding it that baby head is getting closer to to main polyp in size and three more small heads have started to form, all that growth took happened in what felt like nearly half the time and feeding it was the only change I made- same goes for my duncan although it grows way faster than the blastos!

 

[Ryan Wolf]

Marine Snow for me once a week at lights out. But it’s the oyster feast with tank shutoff that gets my acans fat and happy. It’s by reef nutrition. They love it!!