Will scans, micromussa, and lords play nice together

[Shadowspop]

So my 90 cube is quickly filling up with many, many different species. If I put my acans, micromussa, and lords in the same area, will they get along as they grow together. How about favia in the same area?

 

[Shep]

When you say acans, which corals are you referring to? Most people use acan/lords almost interchangeably, just dont want to give you bad advice. For the most part they will be ok near each other as long as they are not touching, their sweeper tentacles are pretty short

 

[DSC reef]

Definitely not favia. Acan, micromusa and lords are the same coral. Can you post pics of the ones your talking about? I want to make sure your not talking about a scoly or meat coral in the middle of an acan garden.

 

[BoomCorals]

Acan echinata would be one to avoid putting next to acan lord, acan bowerbanki, mussa

 

[Sandroni]

I give all my acans/lords, favias, lobos and every low light coral space. I don't want to risk anything.

 

[Shadowspop]

Clearly my newbieness is shining through. I didn't realize they were all the same. I'll post some pictures tomorrow. The kids are asleep for the night. I guess the reason I'm calling them what I am is because that was the name at my LFS.

 

[enlighten]

Acan echinata would be one to avoid putting next to acan lord, acan bowerbanki, mussa

Reviving this post, any success growing lords, bowerbanki, and amakus together? Have an aquarock and want them to grow into a garden together.

 

[thamnasteroid]

(Micromussa, formerly Acan) lords and Micromussa (amakusensis) will play nice together, as they are in the same genus. Micromussas are also typically not aggressive. True Acanthastrea (echinatas and pachyseptas) will not play nice with Micromussa, as they are very aggressive. I'm not totally sure about bowerbankis (Homophyllia, same genus as Scolys) and Micromussa, but my educated guess is that they would be fine together; they won't play nice with (true) Acanthastrea either though.