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Hello, I got this frag for $10 from my LFS and was told it was an Acan, but I'm having a hard time believing it is indeed one. To me it looks like a goniastrea of some sort. Please help me confirm. Also I got this cool looking mushroom, not sure if it's a ricordea of some sort, but it's pretty fury looking. I have attached both pictures of corals. Thanks! 1465316219185-988116667.jpg 1465316573400-1195786671.jpg
 
Rhodactis for the Corallimorph.
Could very well be a Goniastrea, might also be a Favia. Really does not look like an Acan at that angle but it could be, give it a couple more days and put up another image if you do not nail down the ID.
 
This coral is flush with the rock or structure and seems to have its flesh all around it. It also looks to have spikes on it which I didn't notice a few days ago. I just fed it some Mysis and it seemed to take it.

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As mentioned the mushroom is a rhodactis not a ricordea. The orher looks like a acan echinata or an acan rotundoflora, but hard to say being so small. Either way keep that acan away from any other coral. Including other types of acans. Or the other coral will be toast. Acan echinata is probably the most aggressive In the acan family. And in the top 10 of LPS aggressiveness.
 
It looks like an acan echinata to me. Like Tab28 said make sure and move the acan away from other corals, at night they have sweeper tentacles that come out and will kill some stuff. I have like 15 or more frags/colonies of acans all close together and never seem to kill each other but a small frag of zoas fell into my death pit of acans needless to say no more zoa frag haha. I may be one of the few lucky people that can keep acans from killing each other.
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It looks like an acan echinata to me. Like Tab28 said make sure and move the acan away from other corals, at night they have sweeper tentacles that come out and will kill some stuff. I have like 15 or more frags/colonies of acans all close together and never seem to kill each other but a small frag of zoas fell into my death pit of acans needless to say no more zoa frag haha. I may be one of the few lucky people that can keep acans from killing each other.
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Nice acan garden. Luckily they look like lords, there may be an echinata in there somewhere. Lords are kittens compared to echinatas.
 
It looks like an acan echinata to me. Like Tab28 said make sure and move the acan away from other corals, at night they have sweeper tentacles that come out and will kill some stuff. I have like 15 or more frags/colonies of acans all close together and never seem to kill each other but a small frag of zoas fell into my death pit of acans needless to say no more zoa frag haha. I may be one of the few lucky people that can keep acans from killing each other.
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Beautiful collection! How do you make them trump up like that? Is that a sign for lack of light or just nature occurrence? I just got mine like a week ago so it's still adapting to my system. First few days they seemed deflated, but now are finally puffing up. Nowhere near yours though.

Thank you for the information, I'll let it grow a bit before we all come to a conclusion because there still seems to be a debate what this really is.
 
Beautiful collection! How do you make them trump up like that? Is that a sign for lack of light or just nature occurrence? I just got mine like a week ago so it's still adapting to my system. First few days they seemed deflated, but now are finally puffing up. Nowhere near yours though.

Thank you for the information, I'll let it grow a bit before we all come to a conclusion because there still seems to be a debate what this really is.
They like a good amount of flow, not a lot though and I actually have a maxspect razor 160w over my 30 gallon which is way too powerful so I have it dialed down to only 20-30% depending on the time of day it is so a good amount of light is needed in my opinion, of course everyone has their idea on the best way to do it haha. I found that if they get to much light or not enough light they deflate and if there is to much flow they will deflate. I usually feed each frag some frozen mysis 2 times a week and they have been growing like crazy. Aqua SD has some amazing deals on acans always, I just ask Will a guy from Aqua SD to send me some amazing looking Acans and I send him like $150 and he sends like 8 or more frags, well his frags are like colonies compared to some places.
 
They like a good amount of flow, not a lot though and I actually have a maxspect razor 160w over my 30 gallon which is way too powerful so I have it dialed down to only 20-30% depending on the time of day it is so a good amount of light is needed in my opinion, of course everyone has their idea on the best way to do it haha. I found that if they get to much light or not enough light they deflate and if there is to much flow they will deflate. I usually feed each frag some frozen mysis 2 times a week and they have been growing like crazy. Aqua SD has some amazing deals on acans always, I just ask Will a guy from Aqua SD to send me some amazing looking Acans and I send him like $150 and he sends like 8 or more frags, well his frags are like colonies compared to some places.

Perfect! I have a 29g w/ a Eshopps CUBE Nano Refugium running 2 Vegas for better coverage.
 

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