Acan placement

[LCD]

I have a few Acans and have been placing them on my rockwork low in my tank. Tonight I was reading on zoanuts.com in the description of a few of their corals that they require to be placed directly on the sand. Is this true with Acans? Is it only true with some of them? Where does everyone place them in their tank? I am just worried now about one I received today that is the most expensive coral that I have purchased, I don't want to lose it.

thanks to anyone that can help with info or opinions.

 

[jjmcat]

I have all 12 of mine on the sand.

 

[LCD]

Looking at your photobucket photos I notice that you had some on rocks did you move those down? if yes did it improve their health?

 

[zeppelin]

Most of the larger acan lordhowensis colonies I have are grown on rock, or have very thick skeleton. I dont see a reason they would have to be placed on the sandbed.

 

[weaselslucks]

if yours are healthy and happy why move them?

 

[msn711]

I place mine in the rock.

 

[LCD]

The only reason that I asked this is because I had just placed A new colony which happens to be the most money that I have spent on a single coral, then 30 mins later I read the description on zoanuts which got me a little worried. I think that it will be ok on the rock, if not ill just move it. Thanks everyone for your input.

 

[LCD]

I wanted to post a pic of it here, cant figure it out atm will work on it this weekend. I put it in my gallery check it out if you want.

 

[jero1]

well look at the colonies...don't they all look like they have been broken off rocks . evryone I have does....

 

[LCD]

Ya you are right they do all look like they are off of rocks. I dont know why they would NEED to be on the sand.

PS looks like i figured out how to post pics

 

[jero1]

nice one!!!

 

[chrisstie]

Here's a question to go along with the thread title.

I got a frag of an aussie acan from my lfS and it was kept and fragged for a few weeks under MH. While this probably isn't enough time to adjust to light, it was looking great, puffy etc so when I took it home to my tank I put it in the red sea instead of my 55g to see how it would look. Its in the upper 3/4 of the tank considering the red sea max's lights are power compacts in the diameter of T5s. Its alive, puffy at night, wants food, but in the day is shrunken the way many look when they are first shipped in.

should I consider lowering this little guy?

Thanks

 

[LCD]

I wouldnt think that it is a light issue. Have you fed it mysis or brine at night? If not try it, maybe it needs food.

 

[Mr.First]

Just out curiosity Chriss, what temp. are you at ?

 

[chrisstie]

I have been feeding at night and it does welcome food.

My temp doesn't vary too much its around 77 degrees.. maybe down to 76 at night but im running a heater. In the summer months i had to kick on an extra fan on it but its a pretty darned stable tank.

Do they do better at a different temp? Maybe slightly warmer? I have some doing well in my 55g and that tank runs at 80 (t5 lighting on that tank)

Just trying to figure out what'll make it puffy and happy so I can hopefully get them to grow and cover my rock

 

[JUICE!]

I have bad luck in colder temps, chrisstie.

I keep my mixed reef at about 79.5 degrees and don't let it dip down past 78.

In my 75G I had problems with 3 particular aussies acans and after bumping the heater up a little, they did much better.

Salinity and temperature are especially important with acans I've found....but the weird thing is that it only seemed to affect a couple pieces.....I was pulling my hair out and finally asked a friend that imports them. After running through my parameters and looking at pictures, he advised me to bump up the temp....ever since then I haven't had any problems!

I don't know if that is your problem.....but it seems to have been mine.

 

[Mr.First]

Juicey, what is the perfect salinity ?

 

[chrisstie]

Thanks Juice I will give it a go! It is the only thing I can think of besides lighting that is different in my tank and I have other acans doing just fine. I guess you can't make everyone or every coral happy all the time