Had these Acans for 1 year. No growth.

[acropora4u]

Metal halide and led lighting ( or3) orphek. No3 at 8.0 po4 at 0.04 temp 78 steady salinity at 1.026 calcium 440 mag 1325 alk at 8.5 Any ideas.

 

[Lost in the Sauce]

That does seem strange.. most of mine will pop a new head out a month.

Do you have other LPS in the tank that are doing well?

 

[HuduVudu]

 

[jmichaelh7]

Spot feed reef roids see if those babies don’t swell up … otherwise it must be something else

 

[acropora4u]

That does seem strange.. most of mine will pop a new head out a month.

Do you have other LPS in the tank that are doing well?

no, its an sps tank. this was a high end acan someone traded me

 

[acropora4u]

what do you feed? i try coral frenzy on them

 

[Lost in the Sauce]

no, its an sps tank. this was a high end acan someone traded me

You're dissolved nutrients are on the low end of what LPS prefer. I would also venture to guess that the flow may be a little bit too high in there for it to be comfortable. Direct feeding with refloids and oyster feast may help it.

 

[HuduVudu]

what do you feed? i try coral frenzy on them

Currently use:

1.24 oz Coralific Delite Coral Food

Coralific Delite is the ideal food for target feeding or broadcast feeding your corals. Mixing the highly nutritious food with your tank's water in different ratios will make different viscosities for different feeding methods and coral types. Floating type - stays suspended in the water column...

www.bulkreefsupply.com

But I will be switching to:

Reef Candy Coral Food 40g

Feed Your Reef™ with Reef Chasers Reef Candy™, a dry powder food for everything in your Reef! Anemones, Corals, Marine Fish, and other inverts will all benefit from this all-in-one reef super food! Successful reef biomes benefit from great nutrition and this all-purpose formula is a great...

reefchasers.com

Hope that helps

 

[Mr. Mojo Rising]

I feed a cocktail of reef frenzy and frozen shrimps mixed with reef roids once or twice a week.... feed them, they will grow very fast.

 

[G Santana]

I've had these two heads for 7 months, they seem happy, well fed twice a week with Reef Roids and no growth, but they are always puffed and happy.

 

[Shirak]

My acans prefer mysis and other things chunky things like LPS pellets.

 

[HuduVudu]

I've had these two heads for 7 months, they seem happy, well fed twice a week with Reef Roids and no growth, but they are always puffed and happy.

Some LPS are slow growers. My wild caught is like that.