1st Sps idea?
 

Um thinking about getting my first sps, I'm deciding between a birdsnest and a acro. Which is better? Any other ideas?

I have a 35 gallon tank with a 250W MH.

Acros are a huge family you need to single it down to what species. For a 1st acro I reccomend the Millepora. You cant go wrong with either corals.

Yeah a milli is one of the easier ones deffinetly! Birdsnest are cool. You could do a hydnophora but would hate it later :P

Oceanic corals have some nice frags and I am not certain but they have a couple easy starter ones with great color.

Dan

**for all the O MY GODDERS DID DAN JUST SAY THAT??!!! You cant deny the colors ;) ****

I say go with the birdsnest or possibly a montipora of some sort(digitata, samerensis, capricornis)..... these are lower light requiring and more tolerant of water conditions....usually cheaper too...good ones to "dabble" with...

Monti or digi...harder to klll

I'm with fencer. Montipora are a lot more forgiving and in my opinion a safer first purchase. Also, dont go out and buy some rare, limited edition, unique, ultra... anything. Just get a simple frag for $5 or something so that you dont lose a lot of money if it happens to die.

I just bought a Poker Star off Red Coral for $15 bucks. "rare, limited edition, unique, ultra... anything" dont have to be expensive when your buying frags.

hahah funny

oh and my pokerstar was the first sps that lasted more then a month.. i think i have it for over 6 months now

If u guys have a frag of any of these easy stuff or see an easy sps coral to start put with please tell me about it, otherwise this is a bump!!

When did you set up your tank?

I have some frags of pink pocillopora that would be impossible to kill:mrgreen: It was my first SPS.

There is actually someone posting an ad for large pocci frags today. Check them out. I've found them to be forgiving (my pistol shrimp thought it's be cool to use a new frag as a door while I was away for the weekend. I found it burried in the sand and GLUED it to my rock and its lookin just fine).

I'd definitely echo the monti frags. I've just made the dip into SPS and the monti's have been super good to me. They are very forgiving of any misdemeanors.

I now have several different monti's and several acro's in my 20G mixed tank and everyone is happy (knock on wood). Just keep on top of water quality and you should be alright.

I started my tank 1.25 years ago

Ummm... 1.25 years ago? Not the ones i was looking at. I'm picking one up this weekend...

??? WTH u talking about?

LOL. My bad. I miss read...

np

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I have purple digi, orange digi and pink pocillopro