Recommendations for easy branching SPS?

benjc

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My tank is a mixed reef and I'd consider myself a "lazy" reefer...I don't test often, I rely on the look of the tank to indicate when something is off, my nitrates are usually 10-20 ppm, and I sometimes get nitrates up to 0.1 ppm if I don't change my GFO for a while. I've had good success with encrusting montis, decent success with birdsnest, and I'm really adept at making highligher acros turn brown. So, any suggestions for easy acros, milles, etc., or are there no such things?
 
I'd say there is no such thing.... but not necessarily for the reasons you mentioned.. being nutrients. The lack of success would more likely come from not maintaining proper Alkalinity>Calcium>Magnesium levels.
 
Thanks for the input, I should have mentioned that ideally, I keep my salinity at 1.025, alk at 8.1, Ca at 400, and Mg at 1350...but being lazy, they sometimes drift a bit. That said, my corrections occur over a period of weeks (no rapid changes).

Thanks for the digitata suggestion. Any other branching sps that don't bleach/brown/stn if you even look at them funny?
 
Ora scripps stag it's low light and hardy and cheap or green/orange digis like others have said will do fine in most if not any condition I've had peices fall be hind my rock work for a year that are still alive with almost no light.
 
Thanks for the suggestions, going to a frag swap next week....going to keep an eye out for digitatas and slimers.
 
My yellow Porites cylindrica and green Montipora digital are the toughest spa in my tank. Both are six years old. My Acropora digitifera is the second longest surviving sps coral (over four years old) and seems to be quite forgiving. It survived a tank leak and two tank moves.
 
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