HeadleesSon
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Hi everyone, I am sure basic questions get tiring, so I thank you for your time.
My 125 w/ 90 gal sump has been running for a year. It has no soft coral except for 2 rocks with green star polyps. I have been sucessful so far with all of the LPS types I have tried. I just added a 250w MH to 1/3 of the tank and will slowly increase the time it is on ove the next 2 weeks. So far I have 4 Montipora which are doing well. The oldest one is beginning to spread.
I also have a pink birdnest, but perhaps I jumped into it a little too quick. My wife overfed the tank a few times when I was gone and a brown algea grew on the top surfaces of the birdsnest.
I plan on upgrading my skimmer with in 3 days to a much more effective system. I can not tell the brand but it is a large one that uses a sedra 5000 pump.
Here is my question. I want to experiment with SPS other than monti., but I do not want to needlessly stress or kill one. I will wait a couple weeks with the new skimmer running and have made a lot of water changes. At that time I would like to try frags of a few differnet types. I know acro. is suppossed to be one of the more difficult to please. I will try one small acro frag, just to see how I do with it.
Can anyone recommend other species that would be more likely to be forgiving than acro? I have room to place as many as 8 coral someday as the monti will be moved to the back surface at that time. I will start my experiment with 1 acro and up to 3 other frags. Any suggestions? I do not need the easiest in the world (as I have monti doing well) but perhaps something inbetween acro and monti, that is still attractive?
Thanks!
My 125 w/ 90 gal sump has been running for a year. It has no soft coral except for 2 rocks with green star polyps. I have been sucessful so far with all of the LPS types I have tried. I just added a 250w MH to 1/3 of the tank and will slowly increase the time it is on ove the next 2 weeks. So far I have 4 Montipora which are doing well. The oldest one is beginning to spread.
I also have a pink birdnest, but perhaps I jumped into it a little too quick. My wife overfed the tank a few times when I was gone and a brown algea grew on the top surfaces of the birdsnest.
I plan on upgrading my skimmer with in 3 days to a much more effective system. I can not tell the brand but it is a large one that uses a sedra 5000 pump.
Here is my question. I want to experiment with SPS other than monti., but I do not want to needlessly stress or kill one. I will wait a couple weeks with the new skimmer running and have made a lot of water changes. At that time I would like to try frags of a few differnet types. I know acro. is suppossed to be one of the more difficult to please. I will try one small acro frag, just to see how I do with it.
Can anyone recommend other species that would be more likely to be forgiving than acro? I have room to place as many as 8 coral someday as the monti will be moved to the back surface at that time. I will start my experiment with 1 acro and up to 3 other frags. Any suggestions? I do not need the easiest in the world (as I have monti doing well) but perhaps something inbetween acro and monti, that is still attractive?
Thanks!
