A lot of people i know just leave their acans in the sand bed. I'm one of them. However IN trying to keep a cleaner sandbed I picked up a Diamond Sand Sifting Goby. Beautiful creature. unfortunately.. he LOVES To cover over my darn acans with sand.. It looks like I will need to move them onto the rocks. Any opinions about doing that? I'm not 100% sure how acans grow if they will make their own skeleton or if they spread onto rocks.
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Mounting Acans
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They will encrust over rocks. If it's a flat surface, they will grow flat, if it's a mounded rock, they will cover it in the shape of the rock.
Here's a good example of one of mine that I have on my rock work in the middle of my tank.
As you can see, it grew around the rock it was mounted on, and when it hit a flat rock next to it, it started growing sideways out to the left. At the bottom, the heads seem to dangle and just droop since it ran out of rock to attach to. There is nothing but open water underneath that part.
Here's a good example of one of mine that I have on my rock work in the middle of my tank.
As you can see, it grew around the rock it was mounted on, and when it hit a flat rock next to it, it started growing sideways out to the left. At the bottom, the heads seem to dangle and just droop since it ran out of rock to attach to. There is nothing but open water underneath that part.
+1 for George. That Acan Enchinata looks awesome bud. Acan Lords will cover the rock as well. They're usually seen only flat because they're grown out that way in the oceans by the Aussies for the ease of the wholesalers. They're easier that way to frag, to ship, to store, and to sell when they're flat, versus a clump. But you'll enjoy they curling around a rock that you placed them on. Feed them and they will multiply very quickly
Yea, they do grow them out on thin flat surfaces because it's much easier to frag, that's for sure.
I've fragged that thing only once and that was because with Acans you need to cut from underneath or you destroy all the tissue. I only have a dremel, which is really hard to cut through the thick rock it's growing on with that. The small diamond blade is only about an inch wide and I can't get a deep enough cut with it.
I've fragged that thing only once and that was because with Acans you need to cut from underneath or you destroy all the tissue. I only have a dremel, which is really hard to cut through the thick rock it's growing on with that. The small diamond blade is only about an inch wide and I can't get a deep enough cut with it.