Acan growth rate?

[keihi20]

I'm looking to get a few acans, my first ones, and I was curious about the growth rate. I know there are a million factors that relate to this but based on your conditions what is the growth rate of your acans? new head per month? 2 months? what?



TIA

 

[greech]

Mine are fairly slow compared to other (chalice, favia, etc) but if you get in the habit of target feeding them 2 to 3 times a week they will pick up the pace. Small meaty food like mysis work well for this.

 

[keihi20]

greech, have you been able to measure a rate at all? heads per month etc?

 

[MBIETZ]

Its hard to judge the growth rate of acans because it depends on so many factors mine grow pretty fast when there is exposed skeleton to be covered maybe 3-4 heads a month maybe more maybe less depending on if i feed them or not but once the skeleton is all covered then they grow pretty slow.

 

[jones02]

my acans spread pretty fast, started with 3 heads and they all split off into 6 and they split to 12 withing a couple months. i find that my blastos spread about 2x as fast as my acans do.

 

[NewbyReefer]

My acans are hit and miss. My red ones haven't done anything but my purpleish ones went from 2 heads to 6 heads in 3 months. Conditions are identicle as they are about 1" apart on a rock.

 

[hogfish]

growth rates change per so many conditions that it is difficult to give an accurate estimate.