After spending countless days and hours on reef central and seeing all those beautiful sps tanks I'm looking to go SPS. My Tank now is 75g Ligthing is 330w \ VHO and 130w\ PC lookin to go to175 MH(2) ank keep th VHOs .My skimmer is a Red Sea burlin to be switched to a tunzi. Add a refugium to the sump 29g. Tank has been running for 20 months. Ammo=0, Nitrite=0,Nitrate between 5 & 10,PH =8.1-8.3, Phosphates=0, Salt=1.025, Cal=420 , Alk 3.0.My tank has Two clams, A few button colonies , some green star polyps and it is bombbarded with mushrooms everywhere some red but mostly green stripe. What is the best way to convert over to SPS . Will the mushrooms and button polyps get fried from MH or would I have to put them into a different tank and start over. Sorry I dont have pictures .Im having a problem trying to upload them .Even after reading books, threads, im still having problems. When I get it I will post them.Sorry for a long thread , it's my first.
SPS Reef from Soft& Mushroom tank
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jzdad, congratulations on your first post, it's a good one.
I can tell you that if your mushrooms will be touching your SPS, they don't play nice! Mushrooms are like anemones, they irritate SPS causing the tissue in that area to die off. If your rocks are covered with them, maybe you can sell them and get new rock. You might even be able to trade them in at your LFS to offset the cost of your new equipment.
I can tell you that if your mushrooms will be touching your SPS, they don't play nice! Mushrooms are like anemones, they irritate SPS causing the tissue in that area to die off. If your rocks are covered with them, maybe you can sell them and get new rock. You might even be able to trade them in at your LFS to offset the cost of your new equipment.
Well, I know Tunze makes great products, so I'm sure the skimmer will work just fine. I know that Euro-reef skimmers are good, you can even buy blem skimmers from them at a reduced price. ASM makes a good skimmer at a reasonable price too. There are also copycats of these skimmers that work great. I had a SouthBay skimmer (Euro-reef knock off) on my 100 gallon tank for years. Top of the line skimmers include Deltec, H & S, Bubble King, but they are pricy!
I would look for a needle wheel type skimmer, price is reasonable and they work well.
I would look for a needle wheel type skimmer, price is reasonable and they work well.
Sounds like a fine setup to me. I don't know much about high-end skimmers, so I can't add more than has already been said.
If you don't have one yet, I'd recommend that you consider getting a quarantine tank. Some of the SPS corals are pricey, and losing them to a hitchhiker, etc, would be depressing.
If you don't have one yet, I'd recommend that you consider getting a quarantine tank. Some of the SPS corals are pricey, and losing them to a hitchhiker, etc, would be depressing.
Bertoni, Believe it or not I actually quarantee my fish so to do it for my sps would not be a problem. The quarantee tank, It's for the purchase of the new live rock? Correct? When I do fish I usually do this for 14 to 21 days and he /she has to have an healthy apetiete before it goes in the show tank. In all my years in salt water fish I dont believe in medication in the display piece. That is when major problems happends, Do you think that 14-21 is good for the rock?
