No growth in 6 months?

[Touring]

waiting for pic to back up your statement.

Lol....

 

[shaggss]

And thanks for the tips above. So higher alk?
I used to have it closer to 9 and was then reading that things seem to do better a bit lower.

Hi Dennis

I believe a lower Alk is more suitable if you are carbon dosing, not 100% sure why though.

 

[evolutionZ]

I would suggest target feeding specific sps with your pumps off. I started feeding regularly my spa and color and growth have responded amazingly. Feed 2-3 times per week and see what it does foe you.

what do you feed? i feed oyster egg daily but i pour them right infront of my wavemaker which will blow it to my sps directly.

 

[Allmost]

Lol....

ill help you out

nice growth, thats for sure SPS heavy and growing out of water.

 

[Allmost]

Hi Dennis

I believe a lower Alk is more suitable if you are carbon dosing, not 100% sure why though.

higher alk and low nutrients would cause burned tips.

burned tips are skeleton of corals growing faster than coral can make tissue to cover it.

HTH,

 

[penfold2]

higher alk and low nutrients would cause burned tips.

burned tips are skeleton of corals growing faster than coral can make tissue to cover it.

HTH,

I've heard this explanation before, but it doesn't make sense to me. Corals grow by precipitating CaCO3 within their tissue. The skeleton can't grow ahead of the tissue. Maybe the tissue is receding for some reason, or it simply appears absent due to lack of pigment?

 

[Touring]

ill help you out

nice growth, thats for sure SPS heavy and growing out of water.

I just started this tank and getting 1/2 inch a month of growth. I have 40 sps in a 30 gallon. How many do you have?

For a "non established tank" I'm doing just fine.

I don't see how showing my initial tank pics is helping out the OP but thank you. I love seeing my tank.:beer:

 

[Allmost]

I've heard this explanation before, but it doesn't make sense to me. Corals grow by precipitating CaCO3 within their tissue. The skeleton can't grow ahead of the tissue. Maybe the tissue is receding for some reason, or it simply appears absent due to lack of pigment?

hmm, well you do have a good point !

Appearing translucent/absent makes more sense, your right.

but thinking back to when I had Kh issues, I was prety sure at the time that the tip grew a bit, I wil see if I can find the pics again. [by a bit I mean 1/32th of an inch or so ]

 

[Allmost]

I just started this tank and getting 1/2 inch a month of growth. I have 40 sps in a 30 gallon. How many do you have?

For a "non established tank" I'm doing just fine.

I don't see how showing my initial tank pics is helping out the OP but thank you. I love seeing my tank.:beer:

we can measure to see whos is bigger later

but how old is the tank now ?

if that is initial pic, why is there coraline ?

lol ok Ill let u be.

 

[gypsyboy38]

If you have a higher flow tank, sometimes I think the coral bulks up before growing out.

 

[Arkayology]

Oh the joys of keeping SPS. It is such a guessing game.

 

[ssteal]

Run some gfo bet u will start seeing growth

 

[superdragon]

When I had my first 12g SPS tank people called me a fool.

Early on it was like this

then like this about six months

one year after that

'

You can do it, you can do it, you can do it too. :fun4:
Somethings do grow slow... patience

 

[stevedola]

what do you feed? i feed oyster egg daily but i pour them right infront of my wavemaker which will blow it to my sps directly.

My local reef club gets together to have a fish goo party every few mths. we put just about everything in there...
shrimp
clams
muscles
squid
tobico
mysis
nori
aminos
tiger pods
oyster eggs
garlic extract
selcon
theres more but its like a super powered Rods food. This last time we made it like a smoothie consistency and I blast my corals with that after the pumps are off and the main lights go out...usually around 10 pm.

 

[shiladitya1991]

@Dennis- I have read that when you add too many LPS before putting in SPS, the LPS takes up Ca/Alk faster from the water column thus depriving the SPS.