I've had tons of Acans and they pretty much take care of themselves. The only mishap I've had was a 5 day power outage last winter and since I live in a 2nd floor apartment with no balcony wasn't much I could do about it but every acan I've had has been VERY healthy and reproduced like wildfire. All I do is regular water changes and use RO/DI water. No reactors and a simple Eshopps Axiom 120 Protein Skimmer. I do spot feed about 1x a month using a mix of 'reef riods mixed with Reef Chili.
I added a pajama cardinal and nitrifying bacteria, with coraline spores, for three weeks for cycle, then added a acan to my tank with a torch and a hammer within 3 weeks of having the tank up and runing, no fuge, sump, or reactors, just 2 hob filters with built in protein skimmers on a 20 gallon bow, with a 20% water change every single saturday religiously, and they are all thriving!! I lost the hammer tho due to placing a galexia too close and the hammer lost the war.. Hard lesson learned about coral space, but other wise i now have 4 color morphs of acans, a torch (the same one) the galexia, a mushroom, a 7 head duncan, clownfish, diamond goby, 6 line wrasse, fire shrimp, and a pajama cardinal all living happily, i test weekly i have consistant good parameters, and everything is beautiful! Tank is now about 6 or 7 months old! (Yes im going to move the pajama cardinal once he gets too big for the tank i know he gets a little above 3 inches). Now im getting ready to set up a fully automatic, besides water changes, 75 gallon!
Great video and info 👍 I notice your window blinds are closed, do you ever have them open ? The reason for asking is I have a real problem with algae on my rocks despite zero phosphates and nitrates and I have kept my lights low which my Acans are not happy about, any suggestions ?
Hey Antonio just wanted to say great video man the colors and growth is amazing I’m feeling kinda jealous man sure miss my reef man but soon man soon I’ll set it up when is your big build coming?
How do you do waterchanges with corals so high up? This tank is what got me into reefing 5 years ago! It gorgeous and so packed full! I dont see how you do it! How do you vacum in all the nooks and crannies. I must put to much emphases into vacuuming! I move rocks and go crazy! lol I would love to see you rockwork before you decorated! Is there a youtube of that?
If acans are sensitive to higher PO4 then won’t feeding them more also increase PO4? Seems counterintuitive and contradictory? Maybe feeding advantages offsets PO4 disadvantages?
That depends on biological filtration. I’m sure you are aware on who WOLD WIDE CORALS is. If you seen their video with BRS, they feed EVERY HOUR ON THE HOUR! Which is crazy right? Yet are able to keep phosphates at 0.02-0.03. This all comes down with allowing tank to mature property to handle its own bio load. Of coarse if your tank bio load isn’t setup right then yes you would have huge phosphate spikes.
Have you ever struggle feeding Acans when there’s cleaner shrimps inside the tank? I hear cleaner shrimps sometimes get the food out of the mouth of the Acan.
A hammer will attack anything, even other hammers depending on the situation and species, they have much longer sweepers than acans, acans are usualy nothing to worry about because their sweepers only average a inch or so and they are not very agressive, zoas however do not sting other corals but will try to over grow other corals if possible. As far as recordea, i honestly do not know, so i wont give advice on something i do not know, i would just do some research on it.
Are acans clownfish friendly? I have a tiny clownfish and I wanna buy 2 acans but I’m scared this coral could hurt him. I’m a newbie on the whole coral stuff.
@@eatsleepreef9565 would you be able to ship it? Ill pay shipping and extra for inconvenience. I understand if you are to busy. Im going to start up a youtube channel and it would be cool to say i got it from ya. You were the first person i found thats knowledgeable and produces quality content.
Be careful on the differentiation between 'acans' and lords, here you are talking about lords which are very peaceful while acans are very aggressive and will kill lords, great video and tank though! Keep up with the great content
Hey! What do you use to spot feed your corals? I had a turkey baster but found it was difficult to keep clean and I was weary of using soaps or putting it in the dish washer because of fear of transferring that to tank? Thanks!
Another great video, might be a stupid question, but I spot feed mine vitalis pls pellets with an acrylic tube, not all polyps get a pellet all the time. So my question is, are they all seperate, like if I never fed one polyp would it get nutrition from the others? And I need your light schedule haha I have an Xr 30 gen 3 pro on my aquaone 120, only at 20% but 🤷♂️
See I kind of disagree about acans being a beginner Coral. In a real established tank a cans do okay without feeding but in an established tank you can feed them with no problems it doesn't really affect your nutrients too much. In a new tank there's not enough organic particulates in the water for them to feed themselves at all and feeding them manually adds to the nutrient issues that most new tanks already have. also a cans tend to be as you said phosphate sensitive which new tanks typically have issues with phosphate already and they are sensitive to higher temperatures typically if your tank starts to bump up over 80 degrees they are the first to go.
Not saying you're wrong, but i added a pajama cardinal for three weeks for cycle, then added a acan to my tank with a torch and a hammer within 3 weeks of having the tank up and runing, no fuge, sump, or reactors, just 2 hob filters with built in protein skimmers on a 20 gallon bow, and they are all thriving!! I lost the hammer tho due to placing a galexia too close and the hammer lost the war.. Hard lesson learned about coral space, but other wise i now have 4 color morphs of acans, a torch (the same one) the galexia, a mushroom, a 7 head duncan, clownfish, diamond goby, 6 line wrasse, fire shrimp, and a pajama cardinal all living happily, i test weekly i have consistant good parameters, and everything is beautiful! Tank is now about 6 or 7 months old! (Yes im going to move the pajama cardinal once he gets too big for the tank i know he gets a little above 3 inches).
DESPERADO PHARAOH I had the same problem with my diamond gobby just move it up a little bit if you have it on the sand bed put it on the rocks like I did
