Fourevrloud

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What is the trick I see everyone with there acans fully oped and happy.
I buy them happy I bring them home and the don't open all the way I don't get it I tried different areas of the tank nothing
What are you feeding Mabey that's it can't figure them out and Ik there not hard to take care of :banghead::banghead::
 

Nandez13

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I've always had the same problem. In a mixed reef, I can keep similar corals like favias, wellsos, lobo, scoly but for some reason can't keep acans. They never fully open for me no matter what combination of light/flow I give them.
 

Mark2480

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I didn't have any luck with them until someone told me to shade them, so I put them under a branch rock so that they didn't get any direct light and now they are all opened and have doubled in number. I guess I had to much light for them even on the sand bed.
 
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Try to target feed every now and then, lower light, and not too much flow. Honestly I have 4 mini colonies in the same spot on my sand bed and only 3 consistently open huge the 4th is puffy but on the Skeleton while the others look like they want to float off. Btw I don't target feed,mainly because my hermits just run a muck on them. Good Luck also make sure your not moving them around too quickly or drastically.
 
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i keep them on sandbed under med flow. i have a "dirty" lps & sofies tank. i feed the fishes directly above them and when they poop, the acans get a nice "treat." i turn off pumps and supplement with phyto and seafood chum mix (mysis, FBS, shrimp, nori, plaankton, squid)!
 

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