I'll be honest, I'm not the biggest fan of lps. I got into this hobby for sps. Now in your opinion what are the best success tips and parameters for all sps from birdsnest to acros? Tips, notes, parameters anything works!
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Stability Stability Stability is the best thing you can do for SPSI'll be honest, I'm not the biggest fan of lps. I got into this hobby for sps. Now in your opinion what are the best success tips and parameters for all sps from birdsnest to acros? Tips, notes, parameters anything works!
This ^^^^. I find that my sps do the best when I keep my parameters, mainly alkalinity, stable. If I allow my alkalinity to fluctuate I end up with the occasional RTN, but when I keep it completely stable the acroporas do well. For the easier SPS like birdsnest and monti it doesn't seem to matter nearly as much.Stability Stability Stability is the best thing you can do for SPS
This is easier said than done. What are some ways for stability? Dosing, testing fancy overpriced machines?Stability Stability Stability is the best thing you can do for SPS
Overpriced machines is what really helped me in regards to stability.This is easier said than done. What are some ways for stability? Dosing, testing fancy overpriced machines?
Hi, I have found balling methods where you are dosing 3 equal parts every hour- 24 hrs a day to be incredibly stable. I haven’t many sps but alk is within .2 whenever I test and I don’t have to worry about any trace elements. Also a skimmer hooked up to fresh outside air or scrubbers keep ph very stable.This is easier said than done. What are some ways for stability? Dosing, testing fancy overpriced machines?
The way I go is to use a quality salt (red sea black bucket) and do regular water changes and dose the same amount once your find how much your corals use.This is easier said than done. What are some ways for stability? Dosing, testing fancy overpriced machines?
I can imagine. You can probably spend the 800$ that you use for an apex controller for some more beautiful coral or another tank setup if you are like me and have multiple-tank-syndromeOverpriced machines is what really helped me in regards to stability.
I don't have the money for a overpriced machine and I don't have the time for testing and dosing since I got school. What are some tips that don't involve expensive machines or expensive anything? I don't really care for the minimalist design as long as I can at least grow digitatas and pavona easily. I don't need acros yetThe way I go is to use a quality salt (red sea black bucket) and do regular water changes and dose the same amount once your find how much your corals use.
If you have all the budget in the world, maybe get something like a KH director or APEX system but for me, I find it just overcomplicated and super expensive.
Use quality salt and keep consistancyI don't have the money for a overpriced machine and I don't have the time for testing and dosing since I got school. What are some tips that don't involve expensive machines or expensive anything? I don't really care for the minimalist design as long as I can at least grow digitatas and pavona easily. I don't need acros yet
Pavona grows in anything; you could put it in a glass of tapwater & mortons on the windowsill.No acros just het but I want some pavona, montis, poccilapora, and some of the debatable lps/sps
Stability is key. Depending on the size of the tank if you get sps to grow into decent size colonies testing and dosing are gonna have to happen. If it’s not possible then sps might not be possible at this point and time.I don't have the money for a overpriced machine and I don't have the time for testing and dosing since I got school. What are some tips that don't involve expensive machines or expensive anything? I don't really care for the minimalist design as long as I can at least grow digitatas and pavona easily. I don't need acros yet
Kalk (Calcium Hydroxide) is 2-part, but in one part, basically. It's simpler to dose than 2-part because it will add calcium and carbonate in the right ratios. The easiest way to do it (and the way it was commonly done in the past) is just to take the powder, mix it into your ATO bucket and let the ATO dose it when water evaporates. Super simple and mostly effective. Combined with some water changes and maybe a trace element solution or two, this is pretty much all the dosing you need for an everything-but-acros SPS tank.Thanks so much. But kalk seems complicated. Please do explain how and what it does
You don't need them.I don't have the money for a overpriced machine
But you do have to test salinity, alkalinity, calcium, and arguably magnesium. You will probably have to dose. That's just part of keeping stony corals.I don't have the time for testing and dosing since I got school.