New Acan sp. or possibly Lobo...love the colors

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slojmn

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I just got this nice Acan sp. or Lobo polyp from Matt at ReefReady.net. It is still a bit stressed in the picture from trip home and acclimation. The colors are awesome, A beautiful orange inner mouth and ring, to a purple ring, to green outer ring. When really plumped up the green will get lost a bit. It has small translucent and white tipped tenticles when feeding. I hope it grows well, we shall see. There is some obvious recession from the past on the coral but the little guy ate well yesterday :D.

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That's why I noted it may be a lobo...I checked Veron's Indo-Pacific and I am leaning more toward Lobo but since I have no skills at figuring out ID's of corals I am just leaving it at "I don't have a clue what it is, But I love it :D". The polyp is larger than my largest Acan, but I only have a few Acans and know that some can get quite large.
 
<a href=showthread.php?s=&postid=9399182#post9399182 target=_blank>Originally posted</a> by slojmn
Thanks Marvin,
I have to get a picture of it once it settles in and plumps up :).
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very nice.. looking forward to seeing it in full force... :)
 
Stacie, exactly the same. There is a nice shot of it on Matt's website. Each polyp looked awesome on the colony, there were some dead spots as you can see a bit on my piece but overall the colony looked very healthy.

Today it is all plumped up and is loving to eat. I am going to feed this polyp fairly regularly to see if I can get some babies going :D.
 
Beautiful coral. I am no expert, but would lean towards a lobo as well. I hope those colors hold and it does well for you.
 
Awesome coral. and eeeeevil evil linking me to a site that could get me in trouble with my credit card. I mean seriously, where's the "1 of everything" button to order from? :)
 
That was a good read...I forgot that I had followed that thread last week, I didn't even get the connection. After seeing the colony that my polyp came off it seemed somewhat branching, thick branching for sure. Al G Blenny could chime in better. That is a sweet pic of an Acan Maxima over at Phishy Buisness, looks a lot like this one, maybe more delicate...mine seems like such a big bruiser :).
All Delight, My polyp has way less green than yours, truly just the leading edge, more purple, no green stripes through it, and tons of orange, a really nice deep orange. Total Pig!! Seems like a slow grower from the sounds of a few that have had it for a while. We shall see. I started mine off to the side in medium flow.
 
<a href=showthread.php?s=&postid=9403399#post9403399 target=_blank>Originally posted</a> by slojmn
That was a good read...I forgot that I had followed that thread last week, I didn't even get the connection. After seeing the colony that my polyp came off it seemed somewhat branching, thick branching for sure. Al G Blenny could chime in better. That is a sweet pic of an Acan Maxima over at Phishy Buisness, looks a lot like this one, maybe more delicate...mine seems like such a big bruiser :).
All Delight, My polyp has way less green than yours, truly just the leading edge, more purple, no green stripes through it, and tons of orange, a really nice deep orange. Total Pig!! Seems like a slow grower from the sounds of a few that have had it for a while. We shall see. I started mine off to the side in medium flow.
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I've had this since last summer, maybe around August. It was about the size of a nickel, now its about 50 cent piece. Its growing, just not any new ones. Mine is in high light, low flow.
 
<a href=showthread.php?s=&postid=9405632#post9405632 target=_blank>Originally posted</a> by paininthewrasse
nice i was thinking about picking up a polyp of that myself..

they have so many nice corals on that site!!!
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I thought about getting 3 polyps if all 3 can be together as a small colony
 
thats exactly what i have, decent light, medium flow, fast grower ( but no babies so far and its been in my tank at least a year)but it was never cut, it was like a whole small colony so maybe the cutting stimulate the production of daugther polyps, very hardy in my opinion, nice catch slojmn

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