Nano LPS's

[steveb013]

Thought I'd share some..

Western Australian Scolys under normal lights

Under blues

Purple stem torch, LOVE this guy

Red/Pink Acan,

Under Blues

Green Stem Purple Tip Hammer

Chalice

Orange fungia

Under blues this this burns the sandbed

Tank shot

 

[Tweaked]

Sick, love that plate shot too

 

[grant778]

I'm just recently starting to get into LPS and I have a few questions regarding your tank if you don't mind. First, with all those LPS in such a close proximity, are sweeper tentacles not an issue for you? Also, do you dose the tank with kalk or anything to maintain calcium and what not?, or do your water changes maintain that at this point?

 

[steveb013]

Water change (15-20%) every week with NSW and that maintains calcium about 420-440.

The only sweeper tentacles that I see are from the trachy, but they don't seem to bother anything, I've seen them all over the mushrooms and they don't seem to care.

My purple torch tumbled over a few days ago (stupid hermits..) and stung the crap out of some morphs but other than that no issues.

I'm setting a 4x2x2 up so once they grow too big they'll come out of there anyways..

 

[EmeraldReef86]

I love that torch of yours. After getting my first one three weeks ago I now want to get more and fill my tank with torch, hammers, and frogspawn.

 

[steveb013]

Haha only got it last week and it's my favourite piece I think too..

Hammer has expanded about 3 times the size in the photo too.

But I agree I'm a fan of all those !

 

[Fishy 1]

Hey Steve buddy. Could I ask a few questions about the NSW over there in Sydney?
What's the calcium, magnesium, alkalinity and salinity like over there? I use NSW in both my tanks but have never tested so I have no idea what it is like here but I'd think it would be similar to Sydney.

 

[steveb013]

Alk is about 9, Mag 1300, sal 1.025, cal around 420-440.

 

[Fishy 1]

Alk is about 9, Mag 1300, sal 1.025, cal around 420-440.

Cheers mate.

 

[Fishy 1]

The reason I asked is because the salinity here is 1.030 so I have to add a bit of freshwater to get it down to 25. All the other parameters are really good by the looks of it over there.

 

[UKMarineGuy]

Picture of my rainbow...