What constitutes a Rainbow Acan?

[inactive]

I only consider lords with 5+ colors to be true rainbows.

 

[hollback]

That is sick..what lighting do you have it under?

bottom of my 120 gallon Oceanic Tech under 2 250w radiums on IceCap ballasts with 2-T5 actinics. It is tucked under another acan that's shading it.

 

[inactive]

120 Tech? omg I hate you.

 

[hollback]

120 Tech? omg I hate you.

Yep! Thanks! I hate you too. :bigsmile:

Here is my tank build but I haven't taken updated system photos in about 8 months!

40,000 Tablespoons

This coral is staying colorful but the polyps are starting to expand really large so it's not as bright as it was. Will moving it into darker shade help keep it less puffy?

 

[seth&angelle]

I have a 300 gallon with 3 400 watt mh, 12k reeflux bulbs. My acans hate it! They lose their colors, unless I keep them shaded. Im about to change bulbs, either radiums, or 14k ushios, if the radiums aren't too blue.

 

[MikeB]

Needs these colors

 

[inactive]

What, we can't say *** now?

 

[Lowsingle]

Wow, hollback's skittles looks really good.....mine from CC looks like a boring old red acan! I guess I'll have to give it some time to improve =) I feel that a rainbow coral should have at least 3 colors and the colors should cross the spectrum....a red, orange and yellow coral is not a rainbow coral for me, but a red, yellow and green coral would be....pretty silly now that I think about it.

cheers,
Darren

 

[its fry]

Nice MikeB. Perfect. lol

The tricky thing is, a lot of them grow new polyps as rainbow colors.
I'm inspired to start a thread to start to archive the different acan types. :wink:

 

[akabryanhall]

I think I have to agree with Kraylen, Finding an acan with 5+ colors is hard, and so should be finding a rainbow acan. Look at the spectacular example of the rainbow above, not 3 colors or 4 but 7!
Btw, was talking bout the "happy" rainbow. Not sure how many the skittles have. Probably close to it actually.

 

[akabryanhall]

Checked your build thread Hollback, very nice!

 

[akabryanhall]

Btw, what about micromussas? Do they have the same lighting restrictions. Starting to see why I hould not have a lot of rainbow acans. Only so many shaded areas in the tank