Torch Coral Placement?

[ckyborg4]

I recently bought a torch coral, since it was pretty cheap ($22 for 5 heads, which is not bad). I was wondering if the placement of this torch coral is okay and if it will attack the zoas near it.

Thanks in advance!! :beer:

 

[Tweaked]

Just fine at that location. Just watch over the next few years

 

[Bernie21]

looks fine there... however, it will attack anything it can touch, so as long as anything is beyond tentacle reach you should be fine.

 

[ckyborg4]

Thanks!

 

[ckyborg4]

Do you think these two favias will attack each other? I got them from the same store and the owner said they wont attack, but im not so sure. He put them in the same tank next to each other, so maybe it'll be okay? Also, the tentacles are fairly short, the longest i have seen them after dark is 0.5cm, usually shorter.

Whats your opinion on them?

 

[Bernie21]

nice find... they should be fine.

 

[Jkeating8]

View attachment 283772Do you think these two favias will attack each other? I got them from the same store and the owner said they wont attack, but im not so sure. He put them in the same tank next to each other, so maybe it'll be okay? Also, the tentacles are fairly short, the longest i have seen them after dark is 0.5cm, usually shorter.



Whats your opinion on them?

These look to be Acans, not Favia.

 

[ckyborg4]

These look to be Acans, not Favia.

Oh! Someone told me they were favias in the ID forum. Thanks for the info

 

[Jkeating8]

Yep. Give it a google and see what you think. To me they look very much like Acans.

 

[ckyborg4]

Hmm it looks like the key difference between favias and acans are that favia heads are almost stuck together and acans are separate? Not sure if that's right, but it just seems that way from the pics on google.

I think you're right, it's probably an acan, cause at night the heads kinda separate a bit when they try to feed.

Thanks for the news! Now I know they won't go to war

I know I really should know the name of the coral I'm buying, but I live in Hong Kong and the shop keepers can't give me English names (I speak chinese, but the names they give me don't really help). So a lot of the times it's a bit of gamble for me :/ . On the bright side, corals are usually more than half the price compared to the online ones

 

[Jkeating8]

Yeah, they really look like acans to me. That sucks. Around me I don't have much I terms of LFS. Just one.

 

[Gagonzalez]

If they are Acans, they can extend feelers pretty far and kill what's next to them. Other Acans shouldn't trigger any response though. Just keep them away from anything else because they can grow very fast.

 

[lhm nole]

Acans are fine next to each other they are probably most mellow lps out there .. And they are very slow growing.

 

[northernreefe]

I have never experienced my acans causing any sort of trouble. I agree with Ihm nole, pretty mellow.