My First Acan

[kevin34]

just ordered a frag of this today.

 

[netimreefer]

very nice he looks hungry

 

[subielover]

Beautiful acan

 

[gohabsgo]

WoW!!!!!!

 

[paintballer768]

Very pretty Kevin. Im on the hunt for some like that, with the white outside, except I want rainbows
Acans always are hungry, mine almost always have their feeders out. That brings me to my next point too, anything that falls into it is toast (in most cases)

 

[kevin34]

What do they eat? frozen mysis? and spot feeding isnt a must right? just helps speed up growth?

 

[zanoshanox]

Only ever had one colony of acans and mine never took my mysis =/

 

[ibew41]

mine eat mysis and they do grow faster when fed

 

[jjs]

Nice! where did you get those from?

 

[paintballer768]

Originally Posted by Kevin34
http:///forum/post/2770293
What do they eat? frozen mysis? and spot feeding isnt a must right? just helps speed up growth?
Spot feeding is not required, but feeding them definitely increases growth. Mysis, silversides, anything meaty, chopped up to their size. Theyre very hardy, you shouldnt have any problems with em

 

[shinobi9119]

Very nice kevin!!!!!!

 

[kevin34]

got it today. doesnt look exactly like the pic but still very nice. I am waiting for it to get settled in the tank and inflate fully. maybe the colors will come out more. I fed it right away and its already eating mysis

 

[kevin34]

here it is. not quite fully inflated but its getting there. starting to look more like the picture with the orange and red really starting to show.

 

[rebelprettyboy]

Dats a nice acan! Heck to me it looks better than the pic! Great pick up!

 

[netimreefer]

Originally Posted by rebelprettyboy
http:///forum/post/2775728
Dats a nice acan! Heck to me it looks better than the pic! Great pick up!
I agree with rebel the first pic isn't nearly as good as the one you took

 

[shinobi9119]

O WOW!!!!!! very very nice kevin 10x better than the other pic!!!

 

[rotarymagic]

That's crazy, typically items you receive look worse than the stock photo haha. That sucker is gonna spread in no time!!!

 

[rtspeed]

there is a guy here in chicago that works at the shed aquarium, now this might sound crazy but he's speciality is acans and he buy earth worms and chops them up and feeds them to the acans every morning and you want to talk about growth. He averages about 2 to 3 new heads every month. I believe he biggest colony has something like a 130 heads to it.

 

[kevin34]

new pics

fed it some mysis and it ate like crazy

 

[kevin34]