I've had marine tanks for the better part of two decades but only started keeping some simple zoas and one LPS for abut a year. I've always been afraid to to jump into SPS. Well after changing over my FOWLR over a couple of years to a more reef friendly environ by lowering the nitrates and PO4 and increasing flow and general water quality I came across a beautiful ORA Green Birdsnest frag from someone near me and I decided to give it a shot. The frag has been in my tank for a week and AFAICT it looks just like what it did when I saw it in it's old tank when I picked it up, maybe better color because my LED lights seem to make it pop a little more. I plopped the frag down in the lower 1/3 of my tank and it looked good to me but I don't know squat about SPS polyp extension so I figured I would let the experts weigh in:
http://youtu.be/lbIRmnZE-0k
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I guess my question is how is the flow, mostly from a Vortech and wavy sea return spinning my Mag 9.5's return water swirling things around, and how quickly should I move it up more to the top of the tank? The polyps look extend to me but I can't tell because it looked like this almost from the moment I plopped it into my tank so I can't really compare it to what it looks like "closed". Thanks in advance for any advice or comments.
http://youtu.be/lbIRmnZE-0k
<iframe width="1280" height="750" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/lbIRmnZE-0k?hd=1" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen></iframe>
I guess my question is how is the flow, mostly from a Vortech and wavy sea return spinning my Mag 9.5's return water swirling things around, and how quickly should I move it up more to the top of the tank? The polyps look extend to me but I can't tell because it looked like this almost from the moment I plopped it into my tank so I can't really compare it to what it looks like "closed". Thanks in advance for any advice or comments.
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