sps growth?

[Dixie_reefer]

How quickly do sps corals grow? I'm trying my hand at them but I have no growth so far. I have a green slimer and a pink and green birdsnest frags. Polyp extension is good but it just seems like they're surviving, not thriving. What can I do to get them growing? They are in my 3 gallon under leds and in high flow areas.

 

[bct15]

Check your alk and calcium, they need alk and calcium to grow and will suck it up very fast.

 

[Dixie_reefer]

I don't have tests for those. Wouldn't my weekly water changes replenish that?

 

[Otter_rs]

High phosphates will prevent them from laying down their calcium carbonate skeleton, and hence keep them from growing.


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[Dowtish]

You would be better off putting them in your 10 gallon. Where you already have good growth on other corals. I dont think I have ever seen someone have growth on an acro in a 3 gallon tank. your paramters swing too much in something that small.

 

[Dixie_reefer]

Thank you