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So, every sps I’ve purchased from LiveAquaria that I got from ORA seems to struggle in my tank. Birdsnest and stylos specifically. I have a couple acros and montis that are growing well and have great colors but the corals I’ve purchased from Ora slowly pale out and eventually start to stn and it’s mainly corals I get from them. I hear they are grown in a greenhouse under sunlight so maybe they just don’t adapt well to my tank?
My alk has been stable right around 9 for the last 6 months with only tiny variances and I definitely don’t have low nutrients: 16ppm NO3 and .15 PO4. So I know they are not starving. Tank is only 10 months old, but I’m having growth, color, and success with other sps from my LFS or other online vendors so I don’t think my tank isn’t ready for them yet.
I’m not frying them with PAR either. My mixed tank gets about 250 on top of the rocks and 100-120 on the sand bed. They have always been placed somewhere in the 150 range to start and seem to do okay then pale and stn later...
Thoughts?
My alk has been stable right around 9 for the last 6 months with only tiny variances and I definitely don’t have low nutrients: 16ppm NO3 and .15 PO4. So I know they are not starving. Tank is only 10 months old, but I’m having growth, color, and success with other sps from my LFS or other online vendors so I don’t think my tank isn’t ready for them yet.
I’m not frying them with PAR either. My mixed tank gets about 250 on top of the rocks and 100-120 on the sand bed. They have always been placed somewhere in the 150 range to start and seem to do okay then pale and stn later...
Thoughts?