SPS (2 Viewers)

[Tnconcept]

I stop keeping sps cause its too much for me to keep up with, but I still got a couple of frag that are glue to my rock..I don't know much about bird nest but I got 3 diff kind and they all look like the same type but one is growing like crazy but the others seem to be dying...-_- The one that is striving is the one I got from a buddy which he frag off the mother colony but the other are from stores..The question is is different birdnest can be more tolerated then other? I do notice the one that is growing has alot of pollips like longer then the others.. FYI I still don't plan to keep any more sps but just for future references. Thanks.

cal 560
ph 8.1
gravity 1.25
alk 14
nit 0
nitra 0
amonia 0
temp 75
mag last time check was at 1800

 

[gabe_j]

man that cal is kinda high, i keep my tank around 460-500 mag about 1370-1500 and alk around 9 your mag is kinda high. are you trying to kill off some bryopsis?

 

[Tnconcept]

Umm not really I just over dose...lol But now I'm chilling with the dosing..=) I wanted my cal to stay at 480 but I overhaul it by a bit...

 

[gabe_j]

oh i see. ehh it'll get absorbed. but i do know birdsnest can be a punk when it comes to surviving and thriving.. i had 2 acros in my tank and they were just fine i added a birdsnest (beginer coral) lol and it died in a week. nothing was wrong with the water the lights weren't too bright i couldn't narrow down why it didn't make it. strange coral now that i think about it. everything else i my tank was fine. could have possibly been alethopathy. (spelling?) but i run about 2 cups of industrial grade carbon in a reactor so that really shouldn't be an issue. hmm. good luck man.

 

[Tnconcept]

Humm thats what weird about this sps stuff...I did a good choice of giving up on them!! Lol But I love my lps all the way! Well if my bird nest still strive and grow to a colony then I will just leave it alone. I just wanted to know why some are good and stronger then other or like wise only for birdnest not other sps only this paticular species.

 

[soymilk]

Yea Sps sucks. I had one frag happy as heck. I moved it 2 inches over and now it won't open up anymore.

Light, flow, and some corals are just hardier.