Can rainbow acans be kept with other acans?

[Ranjib]

I have a rainbow acan, that I believe has stung and killed other acans near by. But I am not quite sure, I used to think acans can be kept together. This happened few months back, so I dont have any recent pictures, i can share the recent photos of the rainbow acans, and some old photos of the now-dead acans. They died once I moved them close to the rainbow acan.

 

[aresangel]

Were they they same species? I know the echinata scans can be successfully grafted (Justin Credable has done this). I believe if they are the same societies they could be together. If the head sizes were the same I would think they would be fine but I may be wrong.

I will leave that open to any acan lords out there!

 

[Ranjib]

Were they they same species? I know the echinata scans can be successfully grafted (Justin Credable has done this). I believe if they are the same societies they could be together. If the head sizes were the same I would think they would be fine but I may be wrong.

I will leave that open to any acan lords out there!

I dont know about their lineage. But rainbow acans look significantly different than other acans. In fact for a long time i had struggled to identify it as acan. I am still relying on this image from a vendor: https://www.omegacoral.com/product-page/ultra-rainbow-acanthastrea-echinata-colony

My initial guess is the dead ones are acan lord, while the rainbow is acan brain

 

[aresangel]

Ok so the picture you have linked above is acan enchinata. More like an encrusted and the flesh stays close to the skeleton. The other Acans have been recently reclassified. I know there is acanophylla which is the larger brain style, then acan lord is the large polyps about an inch-1.5 inches in diameter. Then there are your dead ones which probably have smaller heads about the size of a dime-nickle. Those are micromussa lords.

I know they have been shuffling their classification and scientific names around for some of them so I am not sure how up to date my memory is!

 

[Jimbo662]

Acan echinata's will usually sting acan lords.

 

[Ranjib]

Ok so the picture you have linked above is acan enchinata. More like an encrusted and the flesh stays close to the skeleton. The other Acans have been recently reclassified. I know there is acanophylla which is the larger brain style, then acan lord is the large polyps about an inch-1.5 inches in diameter. Then there are your dead ones which probably have smaller heads about the size of a dime-nickle. Those are micromussa lords.

I know they have been shuffling their classification and scientific names around for some of them so I am not sure how up to date my memory is!

Thank you, very helpful.

 

[nautical_nathaniel]

Acan echinata's will usually sting acan lords.

Can confirm!

 

[Ranjib]

Acan echinata's will usually sting acan lords.

Got it. Will it sting paly/zoas as well? I have couple of palys, zoas, and a blasto near by. Zoa/palys growing fast in that island

 

[Ranjib]

you all are the best!