Feeding New acan lord

[jambon]

So I have bean growing corals for a few years with much success except an acan I lost a while back. I just picked another up and placed it on the bottom in low to medium flow. I try to place a my sis into individual polyps. Are these too big for acans? Are reef royds  better? My blastomosa  has a good feeding response with mysisshrimp but the acans are a bit slow. 

[sublunary]

I've had acans who loved mysis. Just give it enough time with the pumps off to get the shrimp into it's mouth. Haven't used reef roids, but I never got much response from acans with small foods like cyclopeez. 

[Andreww]

Agree. My acans are fast eaters and they grab the food like maniacs. PE Mysis is most of their diet and there’s some large pieces in there but they just need a couple more minutes on those.

If my Favia with it’s small polyps can eat mysis, I have no problem believing acans can eat silverside babies?

[jambon]

Thanks for the reply... it may be a placement issue, it is a frag with 5 polyps and maybe needs some time to recover plus the move to my tank.

[Andreww]

My acans eat calanus as well. It’s hard to make Calanus sink cuz it mostly floats and it’s really small , made for finicky fish like Anthias, mandarins etc, similar to cyclopeeze, but I gently squirt it in their polyps and they grab it pretty fast.  

[NanoRox]

My acans eat pretty much anything as long as the size is right.  I use .5 mm reef frenzy pellets and apply via a dropper most of the time.  

[Clown79]

I feed my acans mysis, vitalis lps pellets, and reef roids.

 

They eat it all.