LPS and Bubble Tip Anemone in same tank

[wintrmte]

Hi there -

Our tank is about 6 months old, have a couple torches, frogspawn and some other smaller LPS and we picked up a bubble tip anemone.. I know that the LPS like the water to be dirtier with higher nitrates, but the anemone not so much.

Is there a happy balance? Right now my nitrates are about 15ppm , po4 around 0.8 (using GFO to bring it down).

The goal is to keep both LPS and Anemone if possible.

Thanks!

 

[exnisstech]

Nems and lps do fine together as far as water quality. My mixed reef ran with NO3 15-20 and PO4 0.2 - 0.3 and thrived

Be carful with the gfo as it can strip PO4 quickly. Also on a new tank I've had PO4 start off high and gradually come down on its own. I've found nems to do better in older tanks. Mine split a lot when the tank was young but stopped splitting and grew larger once the tank matured. I went from 3 to almost 50 at one point.

 

[wintrmte]

Thank you - beautiful tank !!!