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I have had the good and the bad.
I am now working on getting the reef back to good.
Post a picture of your tank and we can help with placement of the frags.Same here. Trying to find right placement for the mixed stock . I have several mixed frags coming in this week and trying to layout ahead of time .
Post a picture of your tank and we can help with placement of the frags.
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Headed out with wife but will make detailed stocking list and tank setup .
Thanks !
I’m a landscape designer and contractor and realize placement means everything and knowing your plant(coral) determines success or fail of sustainability
Define mixed reef?
Heavy on sps with lps and maybe a mushroom or two? Mostly softies with an lps and an easy sps?
My first reef tank years ago was mixed softy/lps, both grew extremely well. I rescued a porites frag from a live rock bin and it grew really well before I broke the tank down. So would that be considered a successful mixed reef?
I could say the same of my current setup, mostly softy and lps with a couple of easy montipora that are growing. I won't consider it a success until the montipora overtake significant real estate.
That makes total sense .I’ve done this for 4 or 5 years now and this new tank with hydras led and refugium has been more challenging for me on mixed reef .
Tank set up from 2007.
I go for stability of parameters and feed for high nutrient cycling and recycling.
What I have learned is that Tank design will influence Flow, lighting, placement and livestock you can have.
For livestock I have a philosophy - i do as much research to improve survival, place in tank and if it survives it stays.
I won’t change the system to suite just one coral/fish.
Biodiversity is also key. Corals need other corals, that’s how they have evolved the most intricate and symbiotic ecosystem on the planet.
Mixed reef should be MIXED.
I won’t change the system to suite just one coral/fish.
Design and plan for the long term, that means take it real slow.
Real slow.
Real slow.
Real slow.
(the above was not a repeat typo )
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Tank set up from 2007.
I go for stability of parameters and feed for high nutrient cycling and recycling.
What I have learned is that Tank design will influence Flow, lighting, placement and livestock you can have.
For livestock I have a philosophy - i do as much research to improve survival, place in tank and if it survives it stays.
I won’t change the system to suite just one coral/fish.
Biodiversity is also key. Corals need other corals, that’s how they have evolved the most intricate and symbiotic ecosystem on the planet.
Mixed reef should be MIXED.
I won’t change the system to suite just one coral/fish.
Design and plan for the long term, that means take it real slow.
Real slow.
Real slow.
Real slow.
(the above was not a repeat typo )
Dx
Yes . I think you are spot one. Very challenging in keeping everyone happy . I notice that in the past my coral will move to a more desired location and I truly amazedIts hard to keep all your animals happy in a mixed reef. Not impossible. Vs a softy or sps only tank.
Lps kinda are like softysm they like med low flow and little dirtier water some of them but have stony skeletons that require the cal and alk the sps do.
I think most reefs end up mixed.
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That may be true, but I don't know the percentage of people starting out with a mixed reef in mind vs. how many just end up that way over time.I think most reefs end up mixed.
For most softies, especially for a variety that is new to me I place on a small rock first at the bottom.That makes total sense .I’ve done this for 4 or 5 years now and this new tank with hydras led and refugium has been more challenging for me on mixed reef .
My current newest coral stock list including frags which are not glued down .
Ultron favia on plug 1 month in tank
GI joe favia on plug 1 month
Captain America favia on plug 1 month
JF top fuel favia on plug 3 weeks
RR Spice lime favia on plug 3weeks
JF fender bender 3 weeks
Watermelon psammacora 3weeks
Several(15) zoa plugs (. bam bam /scRambled eggs / etc
Corals coming Tuesday
JF Burning banana
JF red eyes porities
JF strawberry cyphastrea
Alien pox and meteor shower cyphastrea
Jack o lantern lepto
Orange crush chalice
Misc favia
Plating montipora colony
1 digitata monti
bubble gum “struggling “
Nepthea 2 years old
Troublesome mushrooms (which I had never introduced )
Open Brain misc . 1 year
2 mystic sunset ( struggling )
Giant paly’s
1 blasto 2 years
1 purple stylo...?
I think that’s worth more than 2 cents . I actually forgot I have a leather toad stool in back of tank that I had threw in at first from my old tank ! That might be the reason some of my sps and others are suffering ! I have a buddy coming over today that I was going to give him some frag pieces for his new tank . My mistake was allowing any mushrooms in my new tank !My 2c worth is that some leathers don’t mix with SPS. I have a mature (3 1/2 yo) 65g LPS and Softie tank with the main coral being a Neon Green Sinularia. Due to the toxins this coral releases I have not been able to keep a single SPS alive in the tank. Mushrooms, Zooranthids, Goni, LPS all going great guns however.
My newer 130g tank however has no issues with SPS. I’ve already moved some Zooanthids into this but the Sinularia is coming nowhere near this tank!
I think that’s worth more than 2 cents . I actually forgot I have a leather toad stool in back of tank that I had threw in at first from my old tank ! That might be the reason some of my sps and others are suffering ! I have a buddy coming over today that I was going to give him some frag pieces for his new tank . My mistake was allowing any mushrooms in my new tank !