Anyone keepin SPS with LPS?

[seta45]

Any advice on keeping a mixed SPS and LPS tank would be appreciated... turns out my wife like LPS more than SPS and me; the opposite.

 

[thefreshfish]

I keep both only advise give the lps plenty of room away from your sps. Lps likes to reach out and eat someone.

 

[GuOD]

I keep all my LPS in 1 area and keep the SPS elsewhere.

I have favites (I think) that looks just like a plain flat rock... but at night it has zillions of tentacles coming out that are like 3-4" long... if I placed it near anything it'd sting it badly!!

 

[Chads29]

I have an acan echinata that feeds at night as well so I keep that away from other corals. I do keep both in my tank. I have had sps frags fall on one of my lps corals and kill them as well.

 

[Sk8r]

No problems. I have a 'belt' of euphyllia, a brain and one montipora digitata on the sand, fox and caulestra on the lower tier, and my sps for the 'crown' of the rocks. [The green star polyps enjoy a rock in total isolation.]

 

[mhltcob]

I would recommend keeping corals that like similar conditions in the same tank. Polyp size is a continuum rather than two distictive groups. Of the two groups, LPS and SPS, that hobbyist have assigned (and these are strictly hobbyist terms), there are representatives of each group in every reef zone. Therefore, you cannot simply say all "LPS" will do well in low flow, low light, and all "sps" in high flow, high light. Making these assumptions will kill lots of corals, versus actually researching the individual coral's needs. Short answer... Yes you can keep LPS and SPS corals in the same aquarium, and many LPS would do better with certain SPS than they would do with other LPS and vice versa.

 

[seta45]

Great advise mhltcob; I am currently researching about Z. algae clade specifications to ensure compatibility with light.. flow is a little more challenging to spec other than reef location/type where generally found in the wild state.

 

[nUgZ]

Here's a GREAT article you should check out.

http://reefkeeping.com/issues/2006-03/cj/index.php

 

[Vegascoral]

No problems here