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i personally didn’t wait a month and almost 3 years later it’s my largest colony. I have / had reef keeping experience. Definitely wouldn’t recommend what I did. But it can be done.It is wise to wait for a tank to mature in order to put in acros? However, for those who are impatient, what is the earliest time frame that you can have an acro grow and color up well from the time the tank is first set up.
If I was to try out a simple acro such as a green slimer, can I keep it healthy at 3 weeks mark after it has been cycled with bottled bacteria? Can it be kept even sooner?
My first Acropora in my 75 gallon was this purple Acro 24 hrs after filling the tank with water. The Acro went in on December 26th. First pic is that day. 2nd pic is today.It is wise to wait for a tank to mature in order to put in acros? However, for those who are impatient, what is the earliest time frame that you can have an acro grow and color up well from the time the tank is first set up.
If I was to try out a simple acro such as a green slimer, can I keep it healthy at 3 weeks mark after it has been cycled with bottled bacteria? Can it be kept even sooner?
Nice progressionWaiting until coraline is growing is ideal, but I am impatient and loaded my tank with frags a week or so after it had cycled.
Didnt lose any for many , many months, until went away on a work trip and my wife miraculously raised my nitrates from 4 to 80ppm in 2-3 weeks.
Again not encouraging wrong practices but if you know what you are doing it can be done without any issues.
Heres the tank progression from just cycled to a year old or so and today