loweryster
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My tank has been up and running for 1 year now. I've had a few problems but I feel that its time to fully stock it. I mainly need help with types and placement. Overhead is a 400 watt MH.
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Help me stock my tank with SPS
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My tank has been up and running for 1 year now. I've had a few problems but I feel that its time to fully stock it. I mainly need help with types and placement. Overhead is a 400 watt MH.
loweryster
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loweryster
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corvette stingray
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Maybe you could find local frag swaps for bargains, or join a local reef club. You can experiment with different types without losing a lot of money if they don't survive.
You get a chance to talk to people to learn what is required to grow the specimens they have. If that is green star polyps at the bottom center of your tank, be careful about it spreading to your other rocks. I've seen it take over tanks.
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Maybe you could find local frag swaps for bargains, or join a local reef club. You can experiment with different types without losing a lot of money if they don't survive.
You get a chance to talk to people to learn what is required to grow the specimens they have. If that is green star polyps at the bottom center of your tank, be careful about it spreading to your other rocks. I've seen it take over tanks.
Ptyochromis
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What parameters do you keep the tank at?
Depending on what you go with, you will most likely want to adjust those heads so they don't point at any one coral.
For a typical warm water setup: Montipora from head to toe. There are tons of different growth forms and they all have a decent growth rate and IME are very forgiving.
Montipora capitata/M digitata/stellata at the very top, M. spumosa, M. capricornis, and M. confusa all the way down to the bottom.
Depending on what you go with, you will most likely want to adjust those heads so they don't point at any one coral.
For a typical warm water setup: Montipora from head to toe. There are tons of different growth forms and they all have a decent growth rate and IME are very forgiving.
Montipora capitata/M digitata/stellata at the very top, M. spumosa, M. capricornis, and M. confusa all the way down to the bottom.
I found the Bali tricolor acro near bullet proof when I first started. 2 weeks into reef keeping with a 3G tank picked up 4 frags, an orange/red acan, 2 zoas and what I think was the Bali tricolor. It made it two years and 2 upgrades before my system crashed and it didn't make it and it grew fast. Note it's different from the gar bonsi and another tricolor, all three have similar color of tan with purple tips and green polyps. The Bali is more of a bicolor and is usually almost all purple with green polyps in pictures, also very upright grower like a cactus or tree where the bonsi likes to grow more like a table. The Bali was easier for me to grow than the others and wasn't to pricey, around $20-40. As stated above cheap frags of anything, especially monti, is a good start and some will make it some may not. Your take looks clean so as long as you don't up the fish and feeding you should be ok. I advise staying away from coral food additives for a while too, they can create nutient issues and negate the food benefits.
