Acan Pic Thread. Join In!

[liverock27]

The new rock work looks great Darren, but you know that means that I have to come over and see it in person soon.

 

[liverock27]

As soon as mine growout a little more I am up for trading. I can see some empty space the right side of my tank that is just calling for another acan.

 

[jmaneyapanda]

not mine, but insane nonetheless
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[calireefer]

Some Acan frags that Rit hooked me up with.
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[darren24]

Very nice Calireefer. I got some from Rit as well.

 

[soarin']

Those acans are beautiful!!!

So how are the acans growing for everybody?

I have heard they grow slowly, and I want to find out if it is true. Those colonies are expensive, but gorgeous -- it would be great to find something that grows fairly quickly.

 

[calireefer]

I feed every day or two and they grow fast.

 

[liverock27]

Mine are growing, but I wouldn't say fast. I spot feed them once a week with Mysis and than they get all the left overs from everything I feed my fish.

 

[reefknight]

Well as a fellow c<span style="font-family: Times New Roman;"><span style="font-size: 13px;">onnoisseur of acans here are a couple of shots of mine, enjoy. (Couple of shots are a little off on focus, its operator failure)</span></span>
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[william1]

WOW these are all nice...

 

[liverock27]

Wow Reefkinight I love the colors of those acans.

 

[darren24]

Yes very nice Reefknight!

 

[reefknight]

Thank you all. A friend got me interested during the "acan" craze a couple of years ago. My first colony was the "orange crush", it was five polyps when I bought it. I don't feed them nearly enough, otherwise it would be huge by now. The colony in the first picture is really washed out by my halides(Gmann 14k), I have four T-5's but still am not getting the color I want, so maybe its time for 20k lamps. Under actinics that colony looks even better. The first two colonies are Aussies purchased from Chris @ Einstien Aquatics (shamless plug) and are awesome. I'll have to work just ahile longer to pay them off,:lol:

I saw alot of gorgeous acans scrolling through this thread, several make me very envious ::

 

[liverock27]

Here is my favorite acan under actinics.
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[FutureInterest]

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Here's one of my colonies. This guy always has his feeder tentacles out. It's always hungry!

 

[darren24]

Nice Jin. Did that come from Rit? I have one like that and it grows very fast.

 

[FutureInterest]

This particular one I got from a trade with a guy on RC. Yah it does grow fast for an Acan. It's wierd how its feeding tentacles are almost always out. Even when full and it can't eat another bite it still got its tentacles out. It's too bad because its even prettier when slightly closed up.

 

[sammy33]

Most aggressive coral in my tank by far. Prefers eating Euphyllia's. The orange Monti Cap nearby has had a run-in with the Acan...the Monti lost. The Cardinalfish, I am pretty sure, is one of the Acan's henchmen as is always hanging out. Here you can see the Acan eating a peice of live rock with a side order of Gelidium.

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[darren24]

Nice Sammy. That Acan does look hungry!

 

[sailfish]

These are my first nice one's.:yay:

Thanks to Chris at Einstein.

Orange one's

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Some pink hoping for a little more as they settle in.

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Joe