Acans Acans Acans the collection journey
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All Delight
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ATI Powermodule 4 ati blue plus 1 ati purple plus
All Delight
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I have a 6 bulb unit, but typically run only 4 bulbs. I ordered new bulbs and I'd to try all 6 bulbs going with 4 ati blub plus 1 purple plus and 1 coral plus.
akitareefer
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Can we see a FTS? Your acans are gorgeous!
Magical Reef
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Not the greatest pic since it's with my phone, but here's a pick of a pretty cool bowerbanki acan that I have. Looks just like a bleeding apple scolymia
http://reefcentral.com/forums/attachment.php?attachmentid=218035&d=1359042960
http://reefcentral.com/forums/attachment.php?attachmentid=218035&d=1359042960
Magical Reef
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Oh yeah and these are incredibly bright
That's awesome!!
scubakid3
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I am starting an acan collection myself. I currently have a light blue/yellow jupiter acan and a red tomato acan in a nano. The LEDs seem to be doing the job for them but based on experience, what is the best lighting for acans? I ordered a Ultra Rainbow Acan from Live Aquaria but that died during shipment. My local LFS generally has some good ones though.
All Delight
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The jupiter acan sounds very nice! LED and T5's color up acans nicely.
Thanks a lot!
All Delight
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I took a FTS w/ my cell yesterday so it's a pretty lame one. All my acans are usually on the sand, but I took them out for cleaning. When I first setup my tank, I had envisioned my tank to look like this, no corals or only a couple on the sand. Now it's full of acans. LOL
akitareefer
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sweet fts! Great aquascaping, makes a lot of nice places for your acans. apparently you also have an addiction to sps 
longtran68
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Very nice acan collection and rock layout. I love the simplicty. I am surprise you can keep all those SPS with just T5s. Do you have any fish?
Why do people think you cant grow SPS under T5s? I dont understand that
All Delight
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sweet fts! Great aquascaping, makes a lot of nice places for your acans. apparently you also have an addiction to sps
oh yeah, I got the sps bug!
Yes, I used both glue and epoxy. It's actually 2 seperate bases, it's just the top part is so close together that it looks like all one. My initial vision was to have two islands so to speak, but as my coral collection grew, I had to re-do the left side to make it larger to hold all the sps.
Man honestly the best place is either your LFS or keep your eyes peeled daily in the selling section. Hobbyist sell nice stuff all the time due to space constraints, or they need money to buy other stuff, or they get out the hobby, or change directions of their tanks. I've purchased a lot of nice coral from fellow reefers.
Looks nice!
Thanks for the compliments. T5's do a nice job coloring and growing sps. Sometimes the misconception is that it's not strong enough because t5's don't seem as bright, but my ati powermodule is very strong.
I do have a couple of fish, a helfrichi and a ventralis anthia. Once I get my upgrade in action, I plan to get more fish. I'm hoping to get my hands on a candy basslet. That would be awesome.
hahaa yah man acans are so addicting. you got a nice one there.
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