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Hi all, I've been slowly dipping my feet into acros and slowly gaining confidence. The system is about to hit one year old, things are stabilizing, and my "test" acros (PC Rainbow, VooDoo Magic from a friend, and recently a green slimer) have colored up and started actually encrusting, which has been really exciting to see. I've also been having success with a variety of montis for awhile now, with the odd exception. Definitely not a perfect track record, but as the months has passed I'm slowly getting more confident.
I've been looking at getting a battle box from battle corals, and just generally starting to peak into the world of high end acros. Previous advice I was given was to go with "classic" acros that have good success rates, but I have also heard about acros that are much less forgiving. I have tried googling this, looked for YouTube videos, etc., but most treat the genus as a monolith, but I know for sure there is at least some amount of variation.
Could anyone help me understand, or point me to resrouces that explain the difference between acro species? Are these newer named acros that haven't been in the hobby as long generally more delicate, specialized, or otherwise harder to keep? Any species to avoid, and how do I tell (given not all named acros seem to have their species listed after?
I'm excited to take this next step, but want to make sure I'm doing so in an informed fashion. Thank you so much in advance!
I've been looking at getting a battle box from battle corals, and just generally starting to peak into the world of high end acros. Previous advice I was given was to go with "classic" acros that have good success rates, but I have also heard about acros that are much less forgiving. I have tried googling this, looked for YouTube videos, etc., but most treat the genus as a monolith, but I know for sure there is at least some amount of variation.
Could anyone help me understand, or point me to resrouces that explain the difference between acro species? Are these newer named acros that haven't been in the hobby as long generally more delicate, specialized, or otherwise harder to keep? Any species to avoid, and how do I tell (given not all named acros seem to have their species listed after?
I'm excited to take this next step, but want to make sure I'm doing so in an informed fashion. Thank you so much in advance!