Time for a new centrepiece? SPS?

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I have a 55l tank that has a kenya tree as the big boi.

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The rate it's grown at, out paces my polyps and it has started dropping branches/frags with abundance.
I'm thinking of replacing it.

My entire tank is softy, lps but I was pondering about getting a tree like sps to put in it's spot, something like an acropora or montipora. But I'm not sure if the tanks up for the job.

The spot the kenya tree sits in, gets around 200 par and also gets some of the highest flow in the tank. With my filter and powerhead, the flowrate is 3600lph.
I have a small video showing flow.



Stock wise I have this.
  • Yellow Clown Goby
  • Tailspot Blenny
  • Blue Neon Goby
  • Blood Red Shrimp
  • Emerald Crab
  • Pitho Crab

I don't have a sump. Daily I dose manganese, nitrate and phosphate.

Would it be possible to keep a SPS?
How much extra work would I need it put in?
Would I need to start checking and dosing calcium?

The tank turned a year old this month.
 
What about a nice plating monti or a forest fire monti digitata?

Otherwise try something hardy like a garf bonsai, wwc yellow tip, green slimer, or PC rainbow.
 
What about a nice plating monti or a forest fire monti digitata?

Otherwise try something hardy like a garf bonsai, wwc yellow tip, green slimer, or PC rainbow.
My vote was going to be a green slimer, haha
 
My vote was going to be a green slimer, haha
Ironically I had a green slimer frag show up with rtn in the bag, cut the tip n remounted. It survived but has zero growth in 3 months, haha. Meanwhile yellow tip austera sneezes, breaks off a polyps, and that polyps is a mini colony 3 months later
 

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