Which other corals with SPS.

goreef170

goreef170

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Hi Everyone,

I have a 250 gallon mixed reef. This is a upgrade from a 170 about 3 month ago. I recently got the SPS bug, so I went out and bought some sps frags, and have them in the upper 1/3 of the tank.

Now i'm wondering what other corals do good with SPS. I am striving for stable conditions, proper parameters for sps, and recently changed from 4 sol blues, to Pacific Sun Hybred, t5 / led.

I want to try chalices, any body have success with chalices, in a SPS tank?

Thanks,
Keith
 
I'll take a stab at it... pretty much anything you want. The two factors though that SPS love that not all other corals can appreciate are light and flow. So the trick is either finding spots in your tank that has lower flow for the corals that need to expand (e.g., torch/frogspawn type corals) or to stick with corals that like turbulent flow.

As for light, as long as you sandbed or lower 1/3 of your tank is not being blasted with light (which it doesn't seem to be with your set-up), then you can get away with a lot of the lower light corals as well.

Bottomline, it's all about preference, and the only corals that might not thrive are the ones thatdon't like prestine conditions.

Good luck,

Chad
 
gofor100 said:
I'll take a stab at it... pretty much anything you want. The two factors though that SPS love that not all other corals can appreciate are light and flow. So the trick is either finding spots in your tank that has lower flow for the corals that need to expand (e.g., torch/frogspawn type corals) or to stick with corals that like turbulent flow.

As for light, as long as you sandbed or lower 1/3 of your tank is not being blasted with light (which it doesn't seem to be with your set-up), then you can get away with a lot of the lower light corals as well.

Bottomline, it's all about preference, and the only corals that might not thrive are the ones thatdon't like prestine conditions.

Good luck,

Chad
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Thanks Chad for the info :)
Where about in SO CAL do you live ? I live near Lake Perris..

Keith
 
I keep sps, lps, and softies all under my leds with no problems, everything gets good growth, water isn't the cleanest (i currently have some algae I'm dealing with due to some overfeeding, good news is i got my dragonette on frozen) but even with all that i still have great polyp extension, growth and colors from my sps. I have sps, chalice, scans, a trachy, maze brain, torches, frogspawn, hammers, leather, mushrooms, favia, cyphastrea (if thats how you spell it), blasto, ricorea, and a clam that i can remember. sps would be a green stag, purple bonsai, plating monti, sunset monti, strawberry shortcake, a tabling acro, two mill's, and a red planet, hope this helps you out a bit.
 
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Art13 said:
I keep sps, lps, and softies all under my leds with no problems, everything gets good growth, water isn't the cleanest (i currently have some algae I'm dealing with due to some overfeeding, good news is i got my dragonette on frozen) but even with all that i still have great polyp extension, growth and colors from my sps. I have sps, chalice, scans, a trachy, maze brain, torches, frogspawn, hammers, leather, mushrooms, favia, cyphastrea (if thats how you spell it), blasto, ricorea, and a clam that i can remember. sps would be a green stag, purple bonsai, plating monti, sunset monti, strawberry shortcake, a tabling acro, two mill's, and a red planet, hope this helps you out a bit.
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Wow awesome mix of corals...
What type of led's do you have. I use to have 4 AI sol's, but I couldn't keep chalices... melted..led's to strong I guess.

I'm from New Jersey, moved to calif about 30 years ago. ( near Asbury Park )
 
I'm down near hammonton, i have reef breeders photon series over the tank, at its highest the blues are 60%, whites 30%, i'm slowly ramping up the blues, not so much the whites.
 
I find that favia and galaxea are extremely tolerant of very high flow. IMHO, pretty much anything that won't sting them is OK, though some report chemical warfare issues with leathers.
 
^^THIS. I haven't noticed any negatives with having leathers in with sps myself. Though my leather isn't huge by any means uv isn't going to do jack for chemical warfare.. That's what "chemical" filtration is for =) .

As for coral it's all about giving that certain coral what it needs flow/light wise. You will find spots in your tank where things do good just stick to the parameters listed for that coral and go from there. Only thing I myself won't put in my sps tank is my bubble tip nems. I don't want to risk them moving one day and wiping out everything in its path.

Not so good Pic of my young transfered tank, nothing special yet and still has a lot of growing to do..I have zoas, lps, Chalices etc but mostly sps all doing great. It's more about stability and proper placement than coral type imo.







(hate how photo bucket makes a semi crappy picture even more crappy resolution wise =(.)
 
Dapg8gt said:
^^THIS. I haven't noticed any negatives with having leathers in with sps myself. Though my leather isn't huge by any means uv isn't going to do jack for chemical warfare.. That's what "chemical" filtration is for =) .

As for coral it's all about giving that certain coral what it needs flow/light wise. You will find spots in your tank where things do good just stick to the parameters listed for that coral and go from there. Only thing I myself won't put in my sps tank is my bubble tip nems. I don't want to risk them moving one day and wiping out everything in its path.

Not so good Pic of my young transfered tank, nothing special yet and still has a lot of growing to do..I have zoas, lps, Chalices etc but mostly sps all doing great. It's more about stability and proper placement than coral type imo.







(hate how photo bucket makes a semi crappy picture even more crappy resolution wise =(.)
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Great looking tank !
 
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