New sps frag. Tierra del fuego, healthy?

[Jollyg97]

Description says it all. Was cut off bottom of guys mother frag

 

[NaturalReef]

The pic is hard to see, but if you see polyp extension, keeps its color and is encrusting within a week or two are signs its happy. Good water parameters and stability,stability,stability. Ask me how I know.

 

[biggles]

It looks fine mate, as long as it has decent PE during lights on just watch and wait. It shouldn't pale any more and if it does or has poor full lighting PE consider dropping it 4" or turning your lights down 30-40%.

Those are beautiful 4-5 colored acros when they base out so nice score

 

[idisc]

I just got a frag on this from my LFS also..about 1.5" long.. I run 2x 175w 14k halides and 2x actinic vhos... will keep track of growth to compare

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[idisc]

Top Right Frag

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[Jollyg97]

Okay, mine is 5 branches, all roughly one inch not encrusted yet. Running 165w led black box. I keep cal at 460, alk at 8.5-9, phos <.05. Also dose coral coloration program by red sea, 1ml each bottle for 10ml of calcium I dose.

 

[Jollyg97]

Thanks for the advice guys. Really appreciate it, new to the sps world.

 

[idisc]

I also dose Coral Colors - 3ml every Wens and Sat. I have a 90G system with 30L Sump - The only coral color I don't dose @ 3ml is C (Fe) which I dose at ml. Reason is that my Greens in my corals are already super bright.

Normally I would not dose anything without a test kit, but things only seem to be getting better. I am going to get the CC test kit this week to see how close my levels are and to make sure I am not going over.

I am also interested in the Reef Energy A & B, but have not purchased it yet. I run my levels at Alk 7-7.5, Calc 410-420, Mag 1425-1440, Phos Always under 0.03 unless I scrap my ATS clean - and Nitrates are always 0 even though I dose "Flourish Nitrogren" @ 10ml 2 times a week. My goal is to get my NO3 to 1-2ppm always.