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- General SPS Discussion | Reef2Reef
Discuss and post your questions about all SPS or Small Polyped Stony corals such as Acropora, Montipora, Stylophora, and all other hard corals
- Personal Experience - Demystifying SPS Coral Care | Reef2Reef
Side view of Reefer Matt’s SPS tank Some beginner SPS coral to try include: Montipora, Pavona, Leptoseris, Pocillopora, Seriatopora, and Stylophora You can see that I have most of those in my SPS reef tank I suggest waiting until your tank is at least 8-12 months established before introducing SPS coral for best success
- Optimal PAR Levels for different SPS Types | Reef2Reef
I bought a PAR meter to dial in EcoTech Radion G5 XR30 Blue for my SPS collection I'm curious what the optimal levels are for the different types (Acropora Millepora, Acropora Tenuis, etc ) From what I've gathered: Acropora Efflo: 350 - 500; Acropora Tenuis: 350 - 450; Acropora Millepora: 350 - 400 ; Acropora Valida: 250 - 350; Acropora
- Difference between SPS, LPS, Soft Corals, and more.
Both LPS and SPS are further broken down by a number of factors including polyp tentacle shape and growth pattern Note that in this hobby it is not uncommon for trade names, common hobbyist names, and scientific names (both correct, incorrect, outdated and up to date) to be used in conjunction with each other and interchangeably
- Tell Me Why You Don’t Like SPS Coral | Reef2Reef
Some Reefers love sps coral, some hate them, some never tried I personally like sps (small polyp stony) coral, but they aren’t very popular in my area Is it because they aren’t “flowy”, or “puffy”? What are the reasons why you don’t like sps coral?
- Iodine overdose journey - Will my sps (and fish) survive?
Hi, I figured I would share a potential disaster that occurred and document the outcome Background I have a 200 gallon SPS system, with some big colonies and a ton of mini colonies and frags I run moonshiners and have some things that I dose on pumps and others that I hand dose everyday I
- Water parameters for SPS | Reef2Reef
Hello! Recently I started putting some SPS in my tank and I always got the following numbers as a standard for keeping SPS Alk 8-10 Po4-0 03 - 0 05 Calcium -400- 450 and Magnesium 1300-1500 Recently I talked about parameters with a fellow reefer and LFS owner, who said to me that if the
- SPS Acropora Help - no vertical growth | Reef2Reef
My sps coral only seem to be encrusting while any branches are just getting thicker Not much vertical growth or new branching See the pictures (oregon tort, sc orange passion in first photo and WWC red shortcake in second photo) Tank parameters seem solid (alk=8 0, temp 77, salinity 1 026, cal=430, mag=1400, nitrates=2-5)
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