Orange Crush Acan owners- Dont turn your back on them!

[savageAJC]

These things are cannibals!! Cannibals I tell you!!!
Mine ate..yea im pretty dang sure it ate my frag of red acan!! I came home one day and it was sucking up my red acan. It looked like a giant space-ship beaming my poor red acan into its mouth! it was crazy, only one head of acan survived the attack. I have pics on my cell, ill try to upload them here in a few.

 

[ynnhoj86]

I believe you! Mine needs 2 inches away from any other corals. They are more vicous than chalices

 

[TheReefNinja]

Savages I tell ya.

 

[sillygoose]

Hey wait - how does that work? Do the acans scoot over or something? Aren't they attached? Can they reach? I need to know :fun5:

 

[ynnhoj86]

Usually a fish or snail moves them in my tank bc its on my frag racks, and they just burn the other corals.

 

[sillygoose]

Oh OK - So they are not just assassin ninjas in the night...

 

[Tanque Verde]

The acan's innards turn outards and munch munch munch. Seen it myself.

 

[victornator333]

its because they are a different species right? my acan lords are all next to each other and they do fine. before i sold my orange crush, it definitely had its buffer zone lol

 

[ToXIc69]

yeah they'll eat anything..
some eg..

source: http://www.nano-reef.com/forums/index.php?showtopic=180552

 

[savageAJC]

Aha! That's crazy!!

 

[Frick]

Echinatas are the real devils. They can out sting/eat most other corals. Maybe not an Elegance.

The Lord mowin a cerith is cool, I had a Red Cynarina eat a large trocheus before. I though that was going too far. Nothing beats this though...

Elephant Ear shroom vs 4" tang

 

[iamwrasseman]

yes they are very aggresive and should be kept at least two inches away from anything you want to stay alive IMO.

 

[savageAJC]

boy o boy do I lag on photos haha here is my orange crush cannibal.


photo-1 by savageajc, on Flickr


image by savageajc, on Flickr

 

[PONCHDOG2000]

Keep your lords and echinatas away from each other... echinatas will kill everything

 

[savageAJC]

any easy way to tell them apart?

 

[PONCHDOG2000]

Yup. Lords puff up in circular rings, tubular almost. Echinata stay flat for the most part, sort of encrusting. Although, Orange Crushes can sometimes look puffy, but more like a golf ball. Lords will have single tubular heads...

See pictures.

LORD

LORD

ECHINATA

ORANGE CRUSH ECHINATA

 

[savageAJC]

thanks for the good info!

 

[sillygoose]

Very cool. thanks.

 

[forrestcook]

all ive got then are lords... haven't bothered each other at all, but im pretty sure one ate a yuma today. My duncans stung the crap out of some of my lords the other day though, so it appears they have met their match.