Tips for Keeping Acans on Sandbed?

[KoleTang]

I haven't ever really been in to keeping Acans. I've always had a few frags here and there, but not that many.

I want to have an acan garden on my sandbed.

I assume they need to grow across something like a rock.

What do you acan people use to let them grow across on the sand?

 

[Pkunk35]

I had mine on the sand bed and as they grew over the plugs the new growth merely gripped the sand and continued to grow. They ended up being spherical in shape. My sand is mixture of oolitic and coarse.

 

[KoleTang]

Wow, that must make them easier to frag!

 

[Singlefin]

I had mine on the sand bed, but seemed like they were irritated by the sand always getting kicked in their mouths from the fish. Moved them up and they seem to be doing better. Wanted an acan garden as well.


Slow your roll..

 

[-Logzor]

Mine do just fine on the sandbed.

 

[Loki]

I have mine on the sand. They are doing well. They will create their own skeleton as they grow so no need to worry about rocks


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[Loki]

Well I assume they do... Ive not had any outgrow their current skeleton


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[Rydogg420]

I had a few really nice acans, but then my orange shoulder tang started to pick at them until they were almost dead. I had to take a epty butter dish and poke hole in it and use it to sheald what was left of my acans.. I have never had a tang do anything like this before. I would bang on the tank while the tang was eating the acans ans the tang would just look at me and go right back to eating the acan. It just would not leave it alone... ugh..

I cant get the tang out of my tank so I had to move the acans around the tank until the tang started to lose site of where I put the acans.. What a pain in the butt..

But now the tang seems to have lost the taste for acans and all is well at the moment...

Tips for acans is to feed feed feed them as much as you can IMO.. I take cyclopsys (spelling error) mixed with mysis shrimp mixed with oyster feast mixed with phytoplankton then add a little zoaplankton.. It seems to pack a punch, my corals love it and grow awesome with awesome colors. (until Mr tang eats them)