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Topic: acan feeding
Posted By: davser
Subject: acan feeding
Date Posted: January 17 2011 at 9:48pm

how often is it safe to spot feed an acan?



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Posted By: CapnMorgan
Date Posted: January 17 2011 at 9:55pm
You could do it every day if you wanted. The more you feed them the faster they'll grow.

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Posted By: davser
Date Posted: January 17 2011 at 9:58pm
i was thinking of feeding everyday for the next two months or so to see how much i can get it to grow

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Posted By: Tresa
Date Posted: January 18 2011 at 7:27am
Just make sure your water parameters don't get bad......


Posted By: jcom
Date Posted: January 18 2011 at 1:21pm
I used to feed mine 2 - 3 times per week, but finally got tired of it...too many mouths to feed.  I haven't spot few them for about 4 months and they're still growing at about the same rate they were when I was feeding them.  They feed on bacteria and fish crap now.


Posted By: Connie
Date Posted: January 18 2011 at 2:05pm
I agree with jcon, I have 10 or so, so never feed mine and I get a couple of new heads every month on each.

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Posted By: davser
Date Posted: January 18 2011 at 2:07pm
i only have 4 heads so i gues i will try it and see how many heads more i can get

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Posted By: Chris Scott
Date Posted: January 18 2011 at 5:48pm
yea if you have the patience to do it, go for it. I lost motivation too...hopefully my blended homemade food gets around to my corals.

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Posted By: Tresa
Date Posted: January 19 2011 at 11:31am
Originally posted by Connie Connie wrote:

I agree with jcon, I have 10 or so, so never feed mine and I get a couple of new heads every month on each.
But you don't know what you are doing..... you are just lucky Wink


Posted By: Roy
Date Posted: February 14 2011 at 9:27pm
In  my experience they grow twice as fast if fed 2 times a week. My favoriteto feed  is small krill.  I started with 3 heads 2 years ago and I now have over 100. It is the size of a softball!



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Posted By: Ahanix
Date Posted: March 03 2011 at 5:52pm
I feed my tank phyto feast twice a week. I shut off the return pump and let it sit in the water column for an hour with my powerheads on . My Acans and Maxima look great


Posted By: Roy
Date Posted: March 08 2011 at 2:00pm
Here are a few small ones im working on feeding to increase growth.
My favorite below

So I bought this at Reef Kingdom 2 years ago. It had 3 heads.  I fed it when it was smaller. But Now I dont. I estimate it as having 100 plus heads. 



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Posted By: bstuver
Date Posted: March 08 2011 at 9:43pm
Very cool do you have a pic of that colony with normal lights on?

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Posted By: Roy
Date Posted: March 09 2011 at 3:32pm
Yup


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Posted By: bstuver
Date Posted: March 09 2011 at 5:27pm
Very cool!!

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Posted By: Ryan Thompson
Date Posted: March 09 2011 at 5:46pm
My experience was that the Acans grew much faster when being fed.

I talked to Eric Borneman about acans about 18 months ago. All of mine were developing pink skeletons and starting to die.

I learned two critical things at that point.

1) Watch your Magnesium with acans. They love it! Mine had dropped below 900 and was the cause of my problems.

2) Acans eat a TON in the wild.

Eric was telling me that they eat constantly in wild and suggested we give the same treatment in our tanks. Therefore I spot fed mine 2-3 times a week. It does get tiresome but my growth exploded at that point!

I thought it might be the raised magnesium but tested that out by not feeding for a couple months. Sure enough, growth slowed down. When I started feeding again, growth probably doubled.

I had a little 4 head colony turn into about 15 within a month.


Posted By: Quickness
Date Posted: August 03 2011 at 1:42pm
I know this is an old post, but I have to say reading this and trying some of the suggestions have already helped my new addition a ton!   When I first got the Acan it seemed to not be doing to well.  After a day or two in my tank it started to open up.  So I took full advantage and started to spot feed.  I have only done this for a few days and can already notice a huge difference in the way it looks!!  It is fat and happy right now!
 
My Favia only seems to extend its tentecales when all of the lights are off, including the moonlights.  So this morning I got up turned off everything waited for a little while then spot fed him also. 


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Posted By: ptronsp
Date Posted: August 03 2011 at 4:31pm
Jared,
 I am glad you bumped this because it made me think hmmm I need to spot feed my acans Wink. Right now I think Acans are my favorite Thumbs Up.
 This was a good read.
 Pam


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Posted By: Quickness
Date Posted: August 03 2011 at 4:49pm
It's been awesome learning and watching this piece come back.   Have another one that I got from the same person that I'm trying to bring back also. He is just a little 2 head piece. But I think he will do great as soon as he starts extending out for me.

Been able to spot feed all my coral so far. Candy canes, favia, enchinata, frogspawn, hammer, and my acans. The frogspawn and hammer don't seem to like it as much

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Posted By: kyser-soza
Date Posted: November 09 2011 at 11:59pm
what do i feed them ? 


Posted By: kyser-soza
Date Posted: November 10 2011 at 12:00am
will brine shrimp work ? i was thinking about hatching some but frozen ones would be easier to spot feed if they will even eat them. thanks


Posted By: Laird
Date Posted: November 11 2011 at 10:45am
What I do is I spot feed every weekend.

I wait until all the lights have been off for at least an hour, then I turn my blue LEDs on just high enough to see the coral.

I take all my different frozen foods and mix them together in a cup full of tank water.

20 mins after that I turn my powerheads off and then I feed my fish on the opposite end of the tank I plan to spot feed on so that they don't steal the food off the coral.   

I don't spot feed anything thats a colony or big, I just spot feed my smaller frags of LPS. My chalices and Acans love the spot feeding and I see a huge difference in growth when I do spot feed.   I also spot feed really heavy sicne fish and crabs do steal a lot of it.

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Posted By: laynframe
Date Posted: November 30 2011 at 4:47pm
Since I started dosing Fuel my acans extend like crazy and they are exploding in growth! Maybe its not the Fuel but thats the only thing Ive changed with my tank in the last 4 to 6 months. I auto dose everyday along with a calcium reactor and i spot dose mag too.

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