Sps help please

[Ash321]

So got my first sps today (aussie acro) ! Was cheap so i grabbed it. Should it polyp up more than this though ?

 

[AdamNC]

It’ll take some time, maybe a week. Acros that I had in my frag tank I just recently moved them to my display and still aren’t at full polyp extension.

 

[Ash321]

It’ll take some time, maybe a week. Acros that I had in my frag tank I just recently moved them to my display and still aren’t at full polyp extension.

That pic was off the shops website looks the same in my tank! Iv put in high flow at the top tmc luminare lights .... shud be ok ...?

 

[AdamNC]

Unless your light par and parameters are the same I’d place it down further to give it time to adjust to your tank. My new frags always go in the front right or left corner of my tank to adjust for a few days before I start moving them to their permanent spot.

 

[john90009]

Seems okay if it looks similar to how it was in the websites picture. In some cases corals can take days, months, even years to fully become happy. I have a pink lemonade that had no polpy extension at all until it became a colony, and now it roasts any millies or tenuis polpy extention.

 

[Ash321]

Unless your light par and parameters are the same I’d place it down further to give it time to adjust to your tank. My new frags always go in the front right or left corner of my tank to adjust for a few days before I start moving them to their permanent spot.

Yeah luckily he was using the same lights in a shallower tank so should be around the same par. It actually has polyped up more since i posted this :D

 

[jda]

Polyp Extension can be both a false positive, false negative as well as fools gold all at the same time. PE is mostly used for gas exchange in the corals, so some will not even try much when they are doing really well - why would they risk some getting eaten if they are thriving? Like said above, some have to get larger to have much PE at all - this is likely because flow is harder in and out of colonies than around small frags.

Color, growth and continuing to encrust are much better signs of a acropora health than PE is.

Seriously, do not chase PE.

 

[Ash321]

Polyp Extension can be both a false positive, false negative as well as fools gold all at the same time. PE is mostly used for gas exchange in the corals, so some will not even try much when they are doing really well - why would they risk some getting eaten if they are thriving? Like said above, some have to get larger to have much PE at all - this is likely because flow is harder in and out of colonies than around small frags.

Color, growth and continuing to encrust are much better signs of a acropora health than PE is.

Seriously, do not chase PE.

Polyps are out now but il bare that i mind thanks

 

[mtraylor]

My best advice is to glue it where its going to be and watch it grow. Keep it simple.

 

[BoomCorals]

Definitely this. Try not to move it if you can avoid it.

My best advice is to glue it where its going to be and watch it grow. Keep it simple.