several questions

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Im getting more and more hooked into NPS corals. Ive been reading posts and different articles for quite some time now and want to start changing out my system to house NPS corals.

Currently I have a 180 gallon 6 foot tank with 3 250w metal halides for lighting and an ecotech mp40 and a koralia 6 for flow.
Im not attached to the sps in my system so Ill probably give them away or trade em for store credit. As far as the LPS in my tank go I'd really like to keep them.

Is it possible to house LPS and NPS in the same tank and both be healthy? Does anyone have this combination in their tank?

Do I need to change out my lighting? If so what should I change it to in order to keep the NPS and LPS happy?

Im most likely going to be changing out the koralia for another mp40. Will the 2 mp40s be sufficient for the tank size?

As far as feeding the NPS has it been found that the dry food and wet food dosing is absolutely necessary or can you just feed dry? Of course whenever I get the chance and funding I absolutely want to make a system like aquabacs. (so sweet, very clean)

As far as temperature goes currently my tank ranges from 77-80. Is this acceptable or should it be lower? Is the 75-77 range better and also still ok for LPS?

Do those of you with gorgs and nephtyas find that their polyps are extended all day even in light? do they come out more when you target feed?

Do you use oyster-feast and roti-feast or do you prefer one over the other?

Thanks for any answers or guidance and thanks for all of the posts that you all have made! you are all an inspiration!

 

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I have a completely mixed tank. With equal parts LPS, SPS and Azoox. SPS on top LPS in the middle and bottom Azoox wherever there is a dark spot. Seems to be working fine, but i am very careful about my water quality and in fact run 3 skimmers. Lots of food in and lots of food out.

77 seems to be good for everything. I know some of my Azoox would like it colder but I don't think my SPS would like it. I still run two 400 watt MH for 6 hours a day. Then I have LED spotlights that are on the rest of the time. Total lighting is about 14 hours, ending with just two spot lights. You just have to find the right place for everything.

I feed a mixture of everything I can find. You name it its in my food mix. I mix the dry with clean salt water and dose it every hour. I dose a mixture of phytos every two hours. I feed the fish twice a day various pellets.

Yes, I fees Oyster-feast and love it and all the Reef Nutrition foods. Then once a day everything gets a good feeding of cyclopeeze. I do turn the pumps off for 15 minutes when i feed the cyclops. My chilli corals seem to feed better with the pumps off. Hope all this helps and good luck.