Who keeps SPS corals in their nano?
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No pics ight now (maybe tomorrow or later tonight), but I've got a nice piece of a montipora digitata in my 10g w/ 80w pc. It's been in there for about 6 weeks. At first it started to brown up a little, but in the last week it's regained it's purple back and is slowly growing. Probably had a bit of a shock going from mh to my pc, but I keep it high in the tank w/ lots of flow and it seems to be happy. The polyps extend all the time and it looks very healthy.
brandonlai
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I just started keeping SPS in my nanocube (modified lighting and stuff of course) and so far they seem to be doing ok.
Ill post pics up when i find my camera...
Ill post pics up when i find my camera...
JeffReef
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Pardon me for inquiring on this thread. But could you please give us your maintenance/feeding regimen on this 10g nano. I'm just interested because you're keeping sps under pc lighting. One of my lfs has a 20g tank with some sps that he successfully keeps under 130w of pc. His only maintenance is a 5g water change each week- no protein skimmer.
Here is the digitata at night tonight on the left side of my tank. I don't have moonlights but I let the refugium light spill over into the tank for the picture... I also have an encrusting monti that came on one of my liverocks, a hodag's frag that I got free and am trying, and a green w/ purple rim monti cap that's growing.
This shows after about 6 weeks of being in my tank. Many tips have grown 1/4 of an inch, and there are quite a few new tips starting to branch off.
For the past three months I have been running a 10g w/ an AC70 used as a fuge and filter. It's got a little pad w/ carbon and floss (generic from a local store) replacing the stock "guts" and then a big ball of cheato on top lit by a galaxy palm light on a reverse cycle of my orbit fixture. Water movement done by filter, set all the way low, and a mini-jet 606 powerhead on about 2/3 flow. No protein skimmer at this point.
Water changes are about 2-2.5 gallons per week. I don't dose anything. I use RO/DI topoff as needed. For feeding I feed my clown and fire shrimp every day with freeze-dried food, and the whole tank gets fed every 5 days with a mix of cyclop-eze and dt's phytoplankton.
This shows after about 6 weeks of being in my tank. Many tips have grown 1/4 of an inch, and there are quite a few new tips starting to branch off.
For the past three months I have been running a 10g w/ an AC70 used as a fuge and filter. It's got a little pad w/ carbon and floss (generic from a local store) replacing the stock "guts" and then a big ball of cheato on top lit by a galaxy palm light on a reverse cycle of my orbit fixture. Water movement done by filter, set all the way low, and a mini-jet 606 powerhead on about 2/3 flow. No protein skimmer at this point.
Water changes are about 2-2.5 gallons per week. I don't dose anything. I use RO/DI topoff as needed. For feeding I feed my clown and fire shrimp every day with freeze-dried food, and the whole tank gets fed every 5 days with a mix of cyclop-eze and dt's phytoplankton.
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This is a monti plate a local threw in when I bought some other stuff from him. I was careful to let it just sit after the first time I placed it (unlike most of my other corals) and this shows growth after about one month. The original size was where you can see the little ridge about 3/8 of an inch in from all the way around the edge. Color has lightened some, but is coming back well (obviously due to the switch from MH to the bottom of a tank w/ PC's).
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Cody Ray
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<a href=showthread.php?s=&postid=8634042#post8634042 target=_blank>Originally posted</a> by DarkXerox
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I do! Check my "red house" for info and stuff.
Although if you want a percentage, you might want to set up a poll. Are you planning on setting an SPS tank up?
Hey herostar, nice Tyree toadstool!
Well I had a 29g going however the UV shield on my fixture slipped out and radiated EVERYTHING! Starting over from scratch.
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