Perfect SPS conditions? there seem to be a range of "perfect" SPS conditions since mine are growing like weeds in these conditions.
I have 2 koralia in my 75 gallons, that's it. No sump so no return pump and flow from that. So some part of my tank only receive very little flow and some SPS there are not even waving their polyps so that's really not much flow. I keep thinking they will die, but they don't.
If your SPS have poor colors, then not sure what is your problem. I am sure you will figure it out
Again, I don't have much flow and I have great colors and growth. They don't juste stay alive, they thrive.
So what makes the colors then? I would say light and stability is more important than flow. The difference I can see is that my corals are darker in color than those kept in ULN, but they are colorfull still.
Also the colors improved a lot when I started to use Zeovit Coral amino and coral vite, that was 2 years ago.
I did not know that the OP had no powerhead and no flow. That must be a problem to even keep corals alive, never mind the colors.
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and let me see if i got this right but this is what your saying is perfect sps conditions??
"I don't have much flow in my tank. I have 5ppm of nitrates and quite a bit of phosphates, yet my SPS have great colors and they grow fast, under 250 watt Pheonix MH"
5ppm nitrates, quite a bit of phos and bright light....ill have to make a note of that i guess ive been going about it the wrong way all these years...thanks for the awesome tip maybe now my sps will grow to be oh so colorfull and wondeful too:P
not sure if you read the thread , i was going off the origional post where it doesnt say he is using powerheads....and YES you do need good flow if you want good growth and color, not critical to keep it alive in which there is a big difference.
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