Feeding and caring for an acan?

[Waleedwale1]

I'm usually not into Acans much but yesterday I saw a piece and I could not pass up on it so I bought the mini colony. It has black edges, yellow, orange and a tiny bit of green inside. Upon bringing it home I noticed that small parts of the flesh were torn off and around the edges off the colony there were a few dead heads (no flesh just skeleton) and other than that it seemed to be doing good. I have him in the bottom half of my tank in mid flow. What do you guys feed your acans? I want him to recover and grow.

The acan is in the front right corner of the last pic.

 

[Atsoi88]

I would definitely recommend feed it.

 

[Waleedwale1]

I would definitely recommend feed it.

With what? And when, at night?

 

[Atsoi88]

I usually target feed them mysis in the evening when I come bavk from home, usually varies between 8 and 10 pm.

 

[Waleedwale1]

My light cycle is from 2 pm to 2 am, I guess I would try and feed right before the lights go off. I haven't seem any feeders yet, prob too early too. Other than that the only issue is the size of their heads, they aren't to big, idk if mysis will for. I might try cyclops

 

[homegrowncichlid]

I throw a slurry of ground up pellets and whatever into the tank when the lights turn off. All the corals extend their tentacle. The acan can eat pellets easily, even during the day if you just drop it on their mouths. 2AM is past my bed time, so if you want to use an automatic feeder... that'll work.

 

[cmantis]

Don't worry about the torn edges it will regrow. As for feeding use a pipette to feed mysis and I usually turn off the flow for 10-15 minutes to allow it to really close up on its 'prey'.

 

[neddog]

I just turn off the pumps and feed cyclop-eeze I do it during the day with the lights on without problem. I am going to have to find something new to feed them though. I cant find cyclop-eeze anymore and I'm almost out. I hear any small meaty food will do. I would like to know what everyone else is feeding, now that we cant get cyclop-eeze anymore

 

[neddog]

Sweet Acans by the way!

 

[cypher]

if you want to sell it let me know I buy it