Euphyilla placement

[Justin poirier]

I have 5 euphyllia all hammers I have them in the rocks currently but was wondering should I put them in the sand bed I've heard that that is where they like to be is this true

 

[Michael Llabona]

Depends on your lighting.

 

[Rookie2reef]

Mines grew more heads and opened up nice when I put on sanded got a 120 gal tank 3 radion on it running at 65 percent

 

[cloak]

Being that the sand bed isn't very stable, I like to secure my Euphyllia corals to the rocks with some super glue gel or epoxy. Also, they seem to do best with both moderate lighting & flow IME. GL.

http://www.advancedaquarist.com/2012/10/corals

 

[Justin poirier]

Being that the sand bed isn't very stable, I like to secure my Euphyllia corals to the rocks with some super glue gel or epoxy. They seem to do best with both moderate lighting & flow too IME. GL.

http://www.advancedaquarist.com/2012/10/corals

I'm assume that my lighting is fairly adequate since I have algae growing in the sand. So I need to get some lawn mower blennys

 

[Justin poirier]

Depends on your lighting.

Should be good since I have algae growing on sand gonna get some lawnmower blennys to clean that

 

[wkscott]

Should be good since I have algae growing on sand gonna get some lawnmower blennys to clean that

Algae growing on your sand in not an indicator that you have adequate light for coral growth. It does however indicate that you possibly have excess nutrients in the tank and that detritus may be building up on your sand bed. Alga can grow in almost any light, from just about completely dark to extremely bright.
A par meter will give you more accurate information as to the amount of light available for good coral growth.

As a side note, lawnmower blennies are pretty good at removing alga from live rock, but they are not really efficient at removing it from the sandbed. There are are several sand sifting gobies that will do a much better job for you.

 

[mtraylor]

+1

Algae growing on your sand in not an indicator that you have adequate light for coral growth. It does however indicate that you possibly have excess nutrients in the tank and that detritus may be building up on your sand bed. Alga can grow in almost any light, from just about completely dark to extremely bright.
A par meter will give you more accurate information as to the amount of light available for good coral growth.

As a side note, lawnmower blennies are pretty good at removing alga from live rock, but they are not really efficient at removing it from the sandbed. There are are several sand sifting gobies that will do a much better job for you.

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Also if you want the hammer to be tightly aligned then you put them in good moderate flow. If you want them to be more spread out then less current will achieve that.

 

[Medic755]

My garden. Moderate light and moderate flow. The large frogspawn on the right started with 4-5 heads and now has 8.