What sps is good for me?

[crazymnkeyman77]

Ive been housing all types of corals in my 75 gallon and 35 gallon biocube. I recently have setup a 55 gallon dedicated for sps only. I have bought all the fish for the tank already and its been established for about 3 months. I want to know what should be the first sps stony coral I should get. It should be on the easier side to care for and a faster grower then normal acro's

 

[GroktheCube]

Montipora digitata or Montipora capricornis are readily available, hardy, fast growers, and attractive.

 

[crazymnkeyman77]

Montipora digitata or Montipora capricornis are readily available, hardy, fast growers, and attractive.

Sweet!!! I love the look of the montipora digitatas. Does any know how much longer I should wait before adding these?

 

[GroktheCube]

It's more ability stability of water parameters than age of tank. How stable are your Alk and Ca? What are you prepared to do to maintain them?

I just set up a new system, and I expect I'll be adding the first new SPS in about two months. I'll be setting up my QT either this weekend or next week, and buying some frags the next day. I put everything through a 72 day QT to make sure I don't introduce ich to my tank. I know it's kinda overkill, and not something the majority of people bother with, but I introduced it with snails at one point, so I don't take chances any more.

 

[crazymnkeyman77]

It's more ability stability of water parameters than age of tank. How stable are your Alk and Ca? What are you prepared to do to maintain them?

I just set up a new system, and I expect I'll be adding the first new SPS in about two months. I'll be setting up my QT either this weekend or next week, and buying some frags the next day. I put everything through a 72 day QT to make sure I don't introduce ich to my tank. I know it's kinda overkill, and not something the majority of people bother with, but I introduced it with snails at one point, so I don't take chances any more.[/

My alkalinity and calmcium are stable and I have mixes to raise them if I need to. I picked up my first few corals this weekend in fact.

1 birdsnest coral
1 red monitpora cap
1 blue tip green frogspawn
I also got one other sps coral that my lps store said was one of the easiest to take care of but I already forgot the name. It is mostly yellow and with atinics looks like it has some light blue accents. I got gread polyp extensions on the birds nest yesterday when I target fed it. But I cant really see polyp extension with the other one. Ill post a pic and see if anyone knows what it is

 

[Art13]

One suggestion, make a list of sps that you want, not necessarily just ones that are easy to keep. Then down the road as it grows out, you'll still be happy with your choices. SPS are not all that hard as long as you keep consistant parameters, alk, calc, mag, temp, salinity. Also need good flow and lighting.

 

[crazymnkeyman77]

One suggestion, make a list of sps that you want, not necessarily just ones that are easy to keep. Then down the road as it grows out, you'll still be happy with your choices. SPS are not all that hard as long as you keep consistant parameters, alk, calc, mag, temp, salinity. Also need good flow and lighting.

Ok thanks, I will make a list. I have two mp40's and two kessil so I think those will suffice. Thanks for the help.