Help me answer a few blasto/acan questions please. Any guides/faq's to blasto/acan?

[dav1d84]

Any links out there for guides/faq's to blasto/acans?


If not can someone help me answer some questions?


1. what kind of lightning do they like? I have 65watt on my 20gallon, will this be enough to keep anything?

2. flow

3. how do they multiply and is it easily done in the aquirium (and speed)?

4. I have a blasto colony of about 2.5inchs wide, only 2 full blasto, and 3half ones are alive, any chance it will recovery?

5. feeding, will dosing dt plankton or other fatty acid/protein/amino acids liquid type foods work?

 

[TypeSH]

Re: Help me answer a few blasto/acan questions please. Any guides/faq's to blasto/acan?

Re: Help me answer a few blasto/acan questions please. Any guides/faq's to blasto/acan?

Based on my experience:

1. what kind of lightning do they like? I have 65watt on my 20gallon, will this be enough to keep anything?

Seems like enough to me. I have mine under 72 watt PC on a 24 gallon nano cube. I put about half of them in the shade with very little to no light. They are doing fine and have actually grown new polyps over the 4 months I have had them.

2. flow

My are under a decent amount of flow. When my blastos expand, they sway around in the current. I have enough flow to blow detritus off the coral, but not enough to rip the tissue off the skeleton.

3. how do they multiply and is it easily done in the aquirium (and speed)?

I only have wellsi, and they see to multiply at different rates. I have 2 colonies that have not sprouted any polyps in the 4 months I had them, but I have one colony that has grown 5 poylps in the 1.5 months I have had it. I noticed that they grew polyps when I started feeding cyclopeeze about 3-4 times a week.

4. I have a blasto colony of about 2.5inchs wide, only 2 full blasto, and 3half ones are alive, any chance it will recovery?

Yes, they can recover if you feed them. On one of my colonies, I had one polyp that was 80% skeleton. Now it is almost back to normal after about 1 month of feedings with cyclopeeze.

5. feeding, will dosing dt plankton or other fatty acid/protein/amino acids liquid type foods work?

Don't know. I put phyto in my tank, but I can't tell if the blastos eat it.

 

[xdusty6920]

no phyto doesnt really benefit blastos. pods, filter feeders, clams etc are the ones who mainly benefit from phyto. you can feed any kind of meaty food but its not really needed. they will still grow without feeding but at a much slower rate.

 

[dav1d84]

fatty acid/protein/amino acids liquid type foods, will they eat those if I just dos it in the tank?

 

[RandyO]

Here's a few good links.


What to feed your Acans

Fragging LPS

Giant Acanthastrea Thread

 

[dav1d84]

if someone can just answer the quick question on liquid protein type dosing please. Search function isn't working, and I don't have the time to feed them with the more solid food through a turkey blaster.

thank you.

 

[impur]

<a href=showthread.php?s=&postid=6911425#post6911425 target=_blank>Originally posted</a> by dav1d84
if someone can just answer the quick question on liquid protein type dosing please. Search function isn't working, and I don't have the time to feed them with the more solid food through a turkey blaster.

thank you.

I would say no. They need more meaty foods such as brine, mysis, bloodworms, silverside chunks etc.

 

[jdav]

in a 33 long I've got 2x150 hqi mhs about 6" above the water.
I've got 2 aquaclear 30s and a maxijet 900 it's got a sump too with a mag 12 in it (it has to push 6 feet so i think it's about 600gph)
I feed liquid life w/ cyclopleze, freze dried c.p., mysis, brine,
and yeah they'll grow back just leave them be

 

[RandyO]

<a href=showthread.php?s=&postid=6904301#post6904301 target=_blank>Originally posted</a> by xdusty6920
no phyto doesnt really benefit blastos. pods, filter feeders, clams etc are the ones who mainly benefit from phyto. you can feed any kind of meaty food but its not really needed. they will still grow without feeding but at a much slower rate.

A ton of info on what people feed them.

http://reefcentral.com/forums/showthread.php?s=&threadid=506041