acan corals

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bonita

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please tell me how the acan corals grow or spread. do they spread over the rocks or do they make their own calcium plate. i have a acan frag that has flled its growing disk will it spread or what
 
seafansar

seafansar

Well-Known Member
I believe it will make a skeleton on it's own and grow into a ball if left on the sand and grow outward on a rock. I'd assume it's easier for the coral to grow on a rock than sand. But I dunno from experience, cause most of my acans died before growing that much in a recent tank crash.

What kind of growth rate do you get? Mine put out a bunch of new little heads, but not much skeletal growth (easy to see when they're dead :( ).
 
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funkpolice

Active Member
the skeleton grows pretty slow, so as stated above, if you leave them on the sand be they will grow into kind of a ball shape. As the skeleton gets bigger, the pollyps will get bigger and multiply. It's makes for a nice looking colony that is very difficult to frag. If you put them on a rock they will spread quickly without building much skeleton at all.
bill
 
Wakeskater02

Wakeskater02

Member
funkpolice said:
the skeleton grows pretty slow, so as stated above, if you leave them on the sand be they will grow into kind of a ball shape. As the skeleton gets bigger, the pollyps will get bigger and multiply. It's makes for a nice looking colony that is very difficult to frag. If you put them on a rock they will spread quickly without building much skeleton at all.
bill
Click to expand...

If it is a flatter rock, growth rate even more and they also will look really cool!
 
Wakeskater02

Wakeskater02

Member
Here are some examples..... I know everyone likes pictures.

Red_Acan.jpg

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AcanTankAug2.jpg


Enjoy.
 
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