i want to start growing my own SPS coral farm in my tank, nothing huge just 2 or 3 little corals to start off and eventually ad to my tank, how can i do this...how do i start?I already have good halide...250W radium 14k bulb, so apart from buying the little suckers whats some things i should know, any help would be greatly apprecieted...
How Do i start my own SPS frag
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Horace
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W/out spoon feeing you tons of info, my suggestion would be to stick around this forum for a while and read through some of the longer threads that you see. There is lots of good (and bad) info out there. The 3 most important things in SPS keeping are the following, I will leave it up to you to find out the information concerning these three groups:
- Water Quality (including low nutrients, and balanced Ion levels)/Stability
- High Flow (30x over + is usually good)
- High Light ( Metal halide or T5 or combo of both)
If you generally have those things in mind you will do just fine. The problem is figuring how to go about achieving those things. It is not only expensive, but it is very time consuming. Also I would not plan on making money on SPS. It is simply not very cost efficient to try and grow coral for money unless you have a huge system and are fragging large colonies. If your just wanting a nice SPS tank and want to make a few bucks back here and there, thats cool. I would forget making a "farm" out of a single tank though. Good luck!
- Water Quality (including low nutrients, and balanced Ion levels)/Stability
- High Flow (30x over + is usually good)
- High Light ( Metal halide or T5 or combo of both)
If you generally have those things in mind you will do just fine. The problem is figuring how to go about achieving those things. It is not only expensive, but it is very time consuming. Also I would not plan on making money on SPS. It is simply not very cost efficient to try and grow coral for money unless you have a huge system and are fragging large colonies. If your just wanting a nice SPS tank and want to make a few bucks back here and there, thats cool. I would forget making a "farm" out of a single tank though. Good luck!
thanks mate i dont want to start a farm as such but just try to grow some for my tank not for monetary reasons though im purely in it for the sps i hav mainly soft corals atm and i want to start to intorduce some sps to my tank, would hanging them up the top be a good way to start *trying not to leach to much* haha thanks for the hints thought much appreciated as u can c by my number of posts i am very new to this.
Horace
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You may want to read up on SPS and softies togeather. If you have a softie dominated tank, especially if you have alot of leather corals, you may run into problems. The softies emit toxins that the SPS dont handle very well. SPS does best when its on its own. I will say that I do have a few softies in my SPS tank though and my SPS look great.
twon8
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i would get some purple digi, and see how that grows. that stuff can live through a nuclear war imo. it lived through a tank crash for me, tank got close to 100 F, and it made it, along with zoanthids, xenia, and mushrooms and three of my 10 fish. so it should withstand a bit of leather coral war, and if need be, just run some carbon.
