can acans hold off gsp and zoas?

[rhdoug]

I just got my first acan frags, and the place I'd like to mount them has some existing zoa hitchikers, and its at the edge of a large gsp colony that is in constant need of trimming. My question is will the acan be able to fight either or hopefully both off? I have seen that acans can pretty aggressive. I'm not so worried about the zoas growing over the acan, because these seem to be pretty non-invasive. I am much more concerned about the gsps. Here are pics of the frags:

I will probably move the smaller acan frag, but the most likely spot is on the other edge of the gsp colony, so same situation.

 

[Dubbin1]

I just had a colony of zoas do a number on one of my acans so if I were you I would keep them away.

 

[Don Berry]

That's really surprising I would have thought the Acan would have no problem with Zoas or GSP. Usually LPS corals win over almost all soft corals.

 

[joe18]

Not YUMAS,
they will nuke anything...even echinata

 

[DonavonsReef]

That Acanthatsrea echinata will kick the S#@% out of them both. No way That Echinata looses. Don't know what kind of yumas you have, i had one fall on one of my echinats and by the time i got home from work it was toast.

 

[Agu]

Why not put a flat piece of rock under the acan and remove all possibility of problems ? If the zoas/gsp grow up on the rock just trade it in for more rock as a captive propagared frag .

 

[xdusty6920]

agu's onto somthing!
my echinata are beasts. if so much as an aiptasia gets in distance out come the little threads and its toast.
btw i had a yuma get to close to a sebae and i ended up with a pile of yuma goo