Woops!

[mrcoffee2]

I had this enchinata for 2 months. I accidently moved it 1cm closer to my acan coral 2 days ago and I came home to a melted acan! Bummah!

That's a pretty fierce coral. My other acan did not stand a chance it seems... Should I ditch the enchinata or do you think it will be fine as long as I don't let other corals touch it?

 

[Defect]

I just read a thread about these enchinata's just killing anything close to them. Death coral. Bummer about the acan.

 

[rossco]

I would keep that acan lord just in case it recovers though. I brought this one back after getting zapped by that echinata behind it.

 

[Tab28]

Enchinata will kill anything near it. They only thing that put it in place were palys. I had one that spit out its web like tentacles and they were moving across the sand bed toward a favia. I saved that one but not to many survive enchinata attach. I no longer have any, a shame they are pretty.

 

[Amelcorn]

My pectinia just fried my enchinata. Didn't even know it was close enough. But came home and it was getting zapped. Didn't have a chance

 

[jservedio]

As long as the Acan Echinata has a few inches between them and other corals everything will be fine. The buffer size should be bigger for bigger colonies. While my biggest echinata is only about 5" across, I have kept other corals as close as 1" because of strategic flow. Less aggressive (like Acan Lords) corals can be kept up-flow from from Acan Echinatas without causing a fight, but you have to leave several inches down-flow because they can attack (as you saw) from pretty far away with devastating effect.

Acan Echinatas literally eat Acan Lords (and plenty of other corals) for breakfast.