Lighting and circulation for SPS

[Scavenger]

Great suggestions so far. I can only offer that I was trying to grow various SPS in my 20" deep 110 gallon using 2 175 watt halides and a flow rate of about 15X. I had slow growing brown sticks without much polyp extention. My LPS and softies were thriving though.

Last week and over the weekend, I upgraded to 2 250 watts halides and a 60X flow rate by adding 2 seio 2600's. Already I have great polyp extension and see some colors starting to develop. I reaquascaped to create calmer nooks and crannys for the softies and LPS. All my corals are responding great so far. The next few weeks will hopefully hold many pleasant surprises for me.