Need help with new acro

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badb4c

I am new to sps. I have had great success with softies and other corals but never have tried sps. i just rescued some neglected sps, green acro and just had a few questions. What would they prefer flow wise. Do they need anything other than iodine and phyto that I am already dosing? I have a very happy hydnophora, are their "personalities" similiar regarding flow and light?

Thanks
 
@badb4c wrote:
I am new to sps. I have had great success with softies and other corals but never have tried sps. i just rescued some neglected sps said:
SPS need heavy, random flow. It needs to be indirect or else blasting the coral directly may rip the tissue right off the piece.

Water quality is very important as well. Pay close attention to Ca, Alk, Mg as well as nitrates and phosphates. Oh yeah, salinity too! As long as these params are in check, my SPS do well.

Strong lighting is recommended. T-5's, MH's are preferred. I've heard of some reefers keep lower light acros under VHO but I would never try it.

Tell us about your system. Lighting, flow, parameters, skimmer, inhabitants?
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and be sure to check for red bugs and/or just treat it before putting it in your tank! seems to be a too much of those little buggers going around right now!
 
I never intended to have sps so my lighting is not ideal. I do have 520 watts of power compact lighting. I set the acro almost at the top of the water. My water is perfect except maybe a little thin at 1021 but everyone, corals/fish/inverts seem to like it better. Its a 75 gallon, with a 30 gallon fuge, forgot the name but a large 250 skimmer. Mag 9 return split into a y and 3 mj 1200s as well. I never knew the name but two of the mj have the spinners on them to break up the flow. I wouldn't have got the sps but my friend just wanted them gone, figured why not.
 
In regards to red bugs, all I have ever had in the tank for a year and a half are softies except for hydnophora or hammers and torches etc. All they like are sps, right?
 
@badb4c wrote:
In regards to red bugs said:
sps specific to smooth bodied Acro's.

I was referring to the new Acro you are introducing to your tank. they could be on that piece specifically.

only real reason I even mentioned it is because you mentioned that you "rescued some neglected sps, green acro". meaning the previous owner wasn't didn't take all that great care of his coral.
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Sure, I understand, I just wanted to make sure it wasn't something like ich that could always be there, but just not appear until parameters were met. I def didn't see any, not like the the pictures I have seen online, I don't really know quite ho large or how small they can be, but noticeable regardless. The acros just were losing color and, for lack of the appropriate term, the feather dusters, quit coming out. They actually look, already, allot better in my tank, and its only been 2 hours. BTW, what do you call the feelers/feather dusters/sticky feeding things, I know, horrible wording.
 
polyp is the word your looking for; feelers/featherduster/sticky feeding things.....
Keep the corals as high up in tank as possible. PC lighting is not even close to decent lighting for most sps corals. You may start looking for a new home for the corals or upgrading lighting very soon, as their efforts to survive will be short lived under low lighting. They are probably doing better just because of water quality alone.
 
Thanks for the input people. I always intended to give it a week or so and if things didn't work out, some sps collector should get a good trade. We will see.
 
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