I have an SPS... uh oh, now what

[ilikefish69]

So I am officially addicted to facebook marketplace. I found a nice gentleman who had $15/frag, and I grabbed 3 and he threw in an extra freebie. Ended up with a kenya tree, 4 head duncan, zoa rock with 3 diff types, and a birds nest SPS.

The bird's nest was the free one. I dipped all 4 with Red Sea's coral dip before putting them in the tank. He recommended I do this, as he was going to as well, because I brought him one of my green hairy mushroom splits, just as a nod to future business.

The SPS I put as high as possible, and there is a powerhead that is blowing basically right at it. It has little green hairs coming out from it, but is very very small, probably 1/4" tall and just a little V shape.

There are 3 orphek 48" LED bars providing light, and I don't really want to keep any other SPS in the tank as I am a "softie" at heart.

Ideas - bring birds nest to LFS see if they would trade me credit, or keep it and see what happens ?

 

[bestfishes]

They are pretty easy to keep with softies and if you are managing ALK, CAl, MG i think its worth keeping and see what happens.

 

[ilikefish69]

They are pretty easy to keep with softies and if you are managing ALK, CAl, MG i think its worth keeping and see what happens.

I am managing these by… weekly 10% water changes? Lol I am testing for them, and recording the results, but at this point in time it’s more out of habit. Nitrate phosphate alk ph calc but not magnesium

 

[bestfishes]

Magnesium holds your cal and alk stable so I highly recommend you start testing that. Its an infrequent dose every once in a while. If you are doing weekly water chances you may not need to worry about it. Im holding these #s with good luck on all my corals (Cal: 450ppm, Alk 9.5 DKH, Mg 1300). Keep water quality high however you need to. I dont do weekly wcs, I use a turf scrubber and do monthly changes at best.

 

[kevgib67]

I have mine under standard Biocube 32 leds. Incredible growth in 6 months. You’ll be fine.