acan feeding question

[supra930]

how often should i feed my acan frag it has 2 heads.I am target feeding it mysis?

 

[tehawesome]

Did you get that from John at ATA?

 

[supra930]

TehAwEsOmE;556861 wrote: Did you get that from John at ATA?

yeah man i might get an orange acan from him this week end.:yay:

 

[tehawesome]

Lol, I traded those in for a bigger colony. I feed them a couple times a week, the more you feed the faster they grow.

 

[supra930]

TehAwEsOmE;556864 wrote: Lol, I traded those in for a bigger colony. I feed them a couple times a week, the more you feed the faster they grow.

awesome ill do that,thanks

 

[etoh_is_good]

Are you supposed to just drop the mysis on top of the open tentacles?

My acans also seem to respond to frozen cyclopeez being dumped into the tank just at lights out.

Bruce

 

[supra930]

etoh_is_good;556891 wrote: Are you supposed to just drop the mysis on top of the open tentacles?

My acans also seem to respond to frozen cyclopeez being dumped into the tank just at lights out.

Bruce

take a 20oz. bottle or 2l and cut the top off enough to put it over what ever you are trying to feed and take a turkey baster and siphon some food and target feed your corals.(thanks to john and his wife at ATA)

 

[tehawesome]

I use forceps, to target feed easier to control imo. Mine eat anything I drop on the tentacles

 

[johnr2604]

A couple times a week should be great. You technically don't have to feed them but they will grow faster. The bottle trick works great when you have fish and hermits that like to grab the food before the coral can ingest it.

 

[corigan]

I never feed my acan's, let them eat what they can catch when I feed the tank. Never had a problem, but they probably do grow slower than normal.

 

[drnecropolis]

I target feed a few things here and there in my tank, when I do I have a turkey baster and a solo cup that's only used for Rod's food.. While the food is thawing in the cup, I take the time to blow off the rocks and all that jazz (wow.. Off track) I lighty blow water across the acans,hammer,favia,frogspawn and trumpets.. It triggers them to extend their feeding polyps.. Squirt the RBTA with Rods and the rest I distribute to all the LPS..


Wow.. That was way longer than it had to be,,