My acan garden

sherita · Jan 20, 2014

I just wanted to share some pics of my lovely acans. Enjoy!

Pmark · Jan 20, 2014

Very nice! Looks like some very good growth. What lights are you using and do you target feed?

sherita · Jan 20, 2014

I do spot feed about once every 10 days or so. They are under Chinese black box lights, full spectrum. Very similar to what reefbreeders sells. I love these lights, and so do my corals.

chefb_5 · Jan 20, 2014

What is a chinese black box what does it look like?

mike007 · Jan 20, 2014

Thats really beautifull good job.

EW_Fish · Jan 20, 2014

Love the colors.

sherita · Jan 20, 2014

chefb_5 said:
What is a chinese black box what does it look like?

Take a look at the Reefbreeders value led fixture. It's the same thing that I'm running. So far I haven't found a coral that didn't like it. Reefbreeders is a sponsor here on R2R, so I'm sure you can find a link in their forum.

TJ's Reef · Jan 20, 2014

Very Sweeet collection of Acans indeed, I'm just starting to add some back into my system after a Kleinii Butterfly ate all of mine a couple years back. Is this all in a Nano/Pico Tank ??? Could you post up a FTS ?

Cheers, Todd

VB68 · Jan 20, 2014

Great looking acans.

skjohn98 · Jan 20, 2014

Very nice, is there a name for the one in the upper left of the top picture?
John

lps1212 · Jan 20, 2014

Nice looking garden

AL1 · Jan 20, 2014

Very nice!!

sherita · Jan 20, 2014

These are in a 65g shallow reef acrylic. Right now they are hanging out in my prop tank while the 210g build goes on. Once that tank is up and running they will move into it.

The acan that is upper left first photo has no name, but it is my prized Aussie acan that cost me a mighty chunk of change to acquire. And it was worth every penny. Polyps are huge, color is INSANE. I have three aussies in my collection, it's the best one by far.

skjohn98 said:
Very nice, is there a name for the one in the upper left of the top picture?
John

lps1212 said:
Nice looking garden

sherita · Jan 20, 2014

Ignore the weird quoting, my laptop is just making things up tonite.

Steveowhits · Jan 20, 2014

Awesome collection.

Jcap74 · Jan 20, 2014

Nice I just bought my first two this weekend. Love your colors, what do you feed

sherita · Jan 20, 2014

Jcap74 said:
Nice I just bought my first two this weekend. Love your colors, what do you feed

Mine like Hikari mysis and/or enriched brine shrimp. Occasionally I will grind up some sort of saltwater fish (raw, of course) and treat my tanks to a tasty meal. They really like that. They don't seem to care for any kind of pelleted feed.