My New Acrapora

OnceTrueFalseBr

OnceTrueFalseBr

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I just bought My first Acrapora.

My parameters:
Salinity 1.027 ( a bit high)
Magnesium 1100ppm
Calcium 420
Ph 8.1

The following im iffiy. I need a better test than API. The above are Elos
Ammonia 0 - 0.1
Nitrite 0 - 0.1
Nitrate 0 -10 ppm hard to tell if more yellow or orage. Water change tomorrow

What do you guys feed them? Is spot feeding necessary?

Its the only SPS. I have 3 LPS frags. Hammer, clove and Green Zoa.

Sps is putting out mucus so i hsve it close to water intake.

Any things to keep in mind?
 

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Your parameters need to be very stable and within certain limits for keeping SPS. Salinity, calcium, and pH are all good. There should be no ammonia, no nitrite, and very little nitrate for SPS success. Some other parameters to test are temperature, Alk, and phosphates. Steady temps, Alkalinity should be steady (greater than 7.0), and phosphates should be low.

Other things are important too. What lights are you using? SPS need lots of light. How about flow? Medium to heavy indirect flow is needed too. How old is your tank? A more mature tank is generally better for keeping acros. Most people say over 6 months to a year.

Your acropora looks very stressed out and very light colored. Thats not so good. It might be better to start with a dark colored "easy" acro like a green slimer or maybe some montipora as they are more forgiving. You do not have to feed your acros- fish poop, great water, and high lights will make them thrive.

Good luck. Go slow. Keep your water pristine and you'll succeed.
 
ghostman said:
Your parameters need to be very stable and within certain limits for keeping SPS. Salinity, calcium, and pH are all good. There should be no ammonia, no nitrite, and very little nitrate for SPS success. Some other parameters to test are temperature, Alk, and phosphates. Steady temps, Alkalinity should be steady (greater than 7.0), and phosphates should be low.

Other things are important too. What lights are you using? SPS need lots of light. How about flow? Medium to heavy indirect flow is needed too. How old is your tank? A more mature tank is generally better for keeping acros. Most people say over 6 months to a year.

Your acropora looks very stressed out and very light colored. Thats not so good. It might be better to start with a dark colored "easy" acro like a green slimer or maybe some montipora as they are more forgiving. You do not have to feed your acros- fish poop, great water, and high lights will make them thrive.

Good luck. Go slow. Keep your water pristine and you'll succeed.
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Yes it is very stressed, i was in manhattan on my way home snd sll trsins stoped running. Took me 3 hours to get home. Of all the days right?

I have LedAquasun. Tank is 5 months. I might be pushing it as I know they need longer lived out tanks, thats why i got this small frag. My params have been consustent and i do daiky to weekly husbandry.

I had it inder the powerhead flow whuch intersect the return flow so it is in the midst of the turbulence which isnt too bad.

Temp is 80 degrees solid. Im getting the apex jr soon to monitor more precisely.

Yes nitrates ill kerp an eye on with watr changes.

Im not running carbon right now.

Thanks!!
 
I have never spot fed any of my corals. If the flow is right they will get what they need from fish poop and scraps of food that flow to them.

The most important food for corals is proper light
 
degibson84 said:
I have never spot fed any of my corals. If the flow is right they will get what they need from fish poop and scraps of food that flow to them.

The most important food for corals is proper light
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I will be monitoring it closely. Is the extended polyps a good sign?
 

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I'm not a big proponent of PE being an indicator of sps health. Some of my sps never extend polyps but have awesome growth and color while others have insane polyp extension but are browned Out with no growth
 
I had an sps that looked like that when it came in. Whitish to very pale lavender. But over the last few months it has since grown like a weed and turned mostly green with lavender corallites looks awesome.


Just make sure you keep the big three stable.
 
degibson84 said:
I had an sps that looked like that when it came in. Whitish to very pale lavender. But over the last few months it has since grown like a weed and turned mostly green with lavender corallites looks awesome.


Just make sure you keep the big three stable.
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Nice! I cant wait to see what this becomes!

Mag calc alk?
 
If you going to spot feed don't use phyto, there's lots of different foods that can work like dry ones ( reef chili, reef roids, coral frenzy) or liquid ( oyster feast, kz coral vitalizer) . Phyto is not needed for sps.
 
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If you going to spot feed don't use phyto, there's lots of different foods that can work like dry ones ( reef chili, reef roids, coral frenzy) or liquid ( oyster feast, kz coral vitalizer) . Phyto is not needed for sps.
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Now you tell me. Lol im kinda not liking phyto. It lingers and string around. Yuk
 
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