Hi all,
FInally after months of struggle with nuisance algae, water parameters and malfunctioning of some tools, I finally seem to have reached a kind of stability. The tank looks nice and does not grow tons of algae every week. Also corals seems finally to show some growth and every frag I have looks happy.
Now I want to slowly fill the rocks with corals, hoping that with this new stability they will survive and thrive.
I need some help in deciding where to place corals and whether they are compatible with each other. Also I have an awful sense of aestethics, so I need some help in melding corals and rockwork nicely.
I have 2 wavemakers (the one on the left is hidden by the rockwork). PAR is around 400 at the surface and 50 at the sand level
1) First issue. I want to get some torch/hammer/frogspawn. Maybe 1 of each for now. I am not sure where to position them in the scape and I know they are quite aggressive so I want to plan ahead in order to avoid aggression. The red circles are the spots where I was thinking to position them it has decent but not too strong flow and 100-150 PAR. How far away should they be from other corals in general? On the left side, the lower spot is maybe 10 cm away from the duncan, when fully extended.
On the right side I have a chalice more or less where the lower side of the green square is, and also I moved the gorgonian there as well because flow was not enough. (not shown in the picture above)
Since it's a bit messy and the quality of the pics is quite bad I would just start with the euphyllias placement and continue with the rest when I can get better pics with my wife's smarphone.
But in general:
green squares--> SPS
yellow circle--> zoa garden
triangle--> Big kenya tree in the background
FInally after months of struggle with nuisance algae, water parameters and malfunctioning of some tools, I finally seem to have reached a kind of stability. The tank looks nice and does not grow tons of algae every week. Also corals seems finally to show some growth and every frag I have looks happy.
Now I want to slowly fill the rocks with corals, hoping that with this new stability they will survive and thrive.
I need some help in deciding where to place corals and whether they are compatible with each other. Also I have an awful sense of aestethics, so I need some help in melding corals and rockwork nicely.
I have 2 wavemakers (the one on the left is hidden by the rockwork). PAR is around 400 at the surface and 50 at the sand level
1) First issue. I want to get some torch/hammer/frogspawn. Maybe 1 of each for now. I am not sure where to position them in the scape and I know they are quite aggressive so I want to plan ahead in order to avoid aggression. The red circles are the spots where I was thinking to position them it has decent but not too strong flow and 100-150 PAR. How far away should they be from other corals in general? On the left side, the lower spot is maybe 10 cm away from the duncan, when fully extended.
On the right side I have a chalice more or less where the lower side of the green square is, and also I moved the gorgonian there as well because flow was not enough. (not shown in the picture above)
Since it's a bit messy and the quality of the pics is quite bad I would just start with the euphyllias placement and continue with the rest when I can get better pics with my wife's smarphone.
But in general:
green squares--> SPS
yellow circle--> zoa garden
triangle--> Big kenya tree in the background
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