Acantho feeding tips

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Can the fellow reefers share their ritual feeding for Acantho corals?
Hi reefers
Like a month ago i bought a Acantho corals, so far its doing awesome but im about to start spot feeding it so it stays happier, what do you guys feed them, i read some feed them mysis shrimp, other pellets, rotifers, I would like to know more about it, i will be really grateful if someone can share their experience
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Oh boy
They are amazing
How often do you feed them?


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Once a week. If I defrost to much krill for my eels I will feed them the extra. If you put a few drops of polyplabs booster they open up huge and will eat like a tang 😆
 

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I wonder if anyone has 3d printed a "coral cover" kinda like an mp40 fish or nem guard but one that you put over a coral so it can feed in peace without cleaner shrimp or fish taking its food.
 
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I wonder if anyone has 3d printed a "coral cover" kinda like an mp40 fish or nem guard but one that you put over a coral so it can feed in peace without cleaner shrimp or fish taking its food.
It helps for sure. I use a Mushroom cup to feed the smaller ones. They eat slow but this is why i use the Polyp booster 1st, so when I drop in food they start to eat right away. Compared to dropping food on top and then waiting for them to open. Hope that makes sense. Only problem is some are to big for this, I have one that the skeleton softball size.
 
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Any tips on recovering this? I got it for $60

Heard they were hardy but don’t see much of a feeding response obviously due to the damage. I see some polyps open on the sides though and it grab it there


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Any tips on recovering this? I got it for $60

Heard they were hardy but don’t see much of a feeding response obviously due to the damage. I see some polyps open on the sides though and it grab it there


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It's save able. Low low flow, don't let other tank mates pick at it. Lots of Aminos
 

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I agree. If it can eat, it can recover. I took in a scoly once that was worse than that and with multiple feedings per day and removing the cleaner shrimp that was starting to pick at it, the scoly made a full recovery.
 

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I believe that one is bleached. All healthy Acanthos I’ve ever seen have deep rich colors, I’ve only seen that type of translucence on bleached corals.
 

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