blasto frags anyone????

salt newbie01

salt newbie01

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I think I would like try some blasto's. I think I'm too chicken to try acan lords right now. Has anyone had any luck with them? Does anyone have any blasto frag available? Or know a good lfs to purchase them?

Thanks for the help,
 
Blastos (wellesi) can be touchy. If they are established, they are quite hardy, grow well, hold their color well, etc. However, they are hit and miss acclimating from the wild. People I know who deal in a fair number of them put them in a dimly-lit "dirty" tank for a month + to acclimate them before moving them into a display tank. I have one red/yellow/green colony that has grown quite well for me, but don't have frags available. CR sometimes carries them, but regardless of where you get them, they can be quite expensive. I do have oodles of Acan lords and would recommend them over blastos for hardiness, as they are virtually bullet-proof.

Dave
 
Agree with Dave. Blastos never did well in my tank for some reason, though everything else does. Acans in general are much hardier, though both types of corals like to be fed. Blastos are much slower eaters than Acans from what I've seen.
 
Thanks for the info guys. I did not realize the acans were so hardy. I was just intimidated about how aggresive the acans can be. Do you guys find them to be very aggresive? Or do you just have to place them carefully?

"I do have oodles of Acan lords and would recommend them over blastos for hardiness, as they are virtually bullet-proof."

Does this mean you have frags available or just that you have had great success keeping them??? ;)

I keep reading how bad leathers are for chemical warfare - especially the toad stool leather. I am thinking about getting rid of my toadstool, but keeping the spaghetti leather. It is just hard to get rid of one.

Thanks again for the help guys
 
I do occasionally offer frags, but just traded a bunch with a guy in California for some frags I've wanted for years, so I'm tapped out at the moment. Most of the acans I keep are of the non-Indo variety, so I wouldn't recommend them for starters. That's not because they are less hardy but because of their price. They do grow well for me; I've had frags that started as a single polyp turn into 20+ polyps in less than a year.

Dave
 
I've never seen tentacles on my Acans larger than about a half-inch, so I'm not sure if you'd need to worry about placing other corals close to them. Dave might be able to answer that better.

I've got a couple of echinatas and used to have a bunch of lords but to be honest I find most of the other species more unique and colorful than the lordhowensis, though there are some stunners of them out there as well.
 
Acan lords can reach out over an inch from pictures I've seen and attack other adjacent corals., and the Acan almost always wins. However, I keep them with Micromussa sp. and have never had a problem. I don't understand the comment about the color of the lords, unless you're refering to the Indo morphs, which can be rather bland. My avitar is an Acan lord, and I don't consider it bland at all. Then again, its just a matter of personal taste.

Dave
 
Your lords are not at all bland but they are much rarer and harder to acquire than what is commonly available to us.
 
Are the micomussa as expensive as the acans and blasto? And are the micromussa as hard to aclimate as the blastos? Your acans are very colorful. I think fred must have been referring to the indo morphs. Some of those are kinda bland. So the acans won't mess with another coral unless they can touch them. So if I keep them several inches away from other corals evryone should get along fine. Thanks again for the info. I think all three of these corals are very cool looking, and a lot of them are very colorful. I guess I just need to get a small colony to start and learn with. Now the tough part trying to decide what to start with...

Thanks again,
 
Micros vary all over the map, just like Acans, depending on color. They are as hardy as Acans, IMO. The Acans can send out filaments which can sting adjacent corals, but if they're several inches away, you should be OK. A small colony would be nice, but a single polyp is enough to get you started. I'll try and have a meeting at my house in the near future and we can discuss Acans and other LPS at length.

Dave
 
That would be great Dave. I'll look forward to it. It would be great to see all your rare acans. I'll let you know if I get any frags or single polyps of anything.
 
June would probably work for me, just remind me at the next meeting. Give me a chance to share some of my new stuff; the tank's changed a lot since people last saw it. BTW, there's a guy selling red micromussa polyps for like $50 for 2 polyps (?) over on the selling forum right now. I almost bought some, but wanted to hold out for something else :)

Dave
 
There are some nice lords Dave, and yours are good examples. But they do tend to be more expensive. Some of the Acans Anthony has had at Aquadesignz have been phenomenal. The more common Indo varieties are what are generally more available and affordable though. Their color is nice as well, I don't want to take anything away from them, but they tend to be some variation on the red/green theme. I just find that the echinata (subechinata, rotundoflora, etc.) have a wider variety of colors and patterns. To each their own though, and lots of people do like the Indo variety as well. For the price/color, I prefer the echinata myself.
 
Jen doesn't sell them for that much anymore but you've gotta be quick on her site to pick them up. I've got a few of hers, but they didn't come from her directly. She named my avitar "Strawberry Shortcake", for example, see her site
 
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