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Old 07-23-2010, 04:17 AM
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Thanks for the reply. There will never be SPS in my main tank,that will always be a softie
tank. I'll maybe try and grab a few SPS frags and see how it goes!!!
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Old 07-23-2010, 04:25 AM
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Seahorse_Fanatic gave me my first SPS haha.. now I'm bugging him for more and the addiction grows! literally...
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Yeah I try starting out with what I call "the basics" (digitata, birdsnests, porites) and see how they do, or alternatively get some cheap frags from a fellow reefer and see how they do before you fully venture in (with the more expensive frags anyways).
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Yeah I try starting out with what I call "the basics" (digitata, birdsnests, porites) and see how they do, or alternatively get some cheap frags from a fellow reefer and see how they do before you fully venture in (with the more expensive frags anyways).
Or get some neat LPS frags and forget about the sticks.
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Old 07-23-2010, 05:03 AM
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I mostly got into sps because of the colours that you just can't find in softies. I also like the measurable growth that you get (eg - seeing an extra branch pop out). I also enjoy the experimental aspect of it - like you're able to change the colour of the sps drastically just by placing in different locations of your tank. I just got a bunch of frags to start and never really turned back. Love em.
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Seeing pictures like this all my life made me want something like this one day. So on day 14 or so I got my first SPS...

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I'm still mainly an LPS collector but I blame Marie's Regal angel for getting me into sps.

Her angel nibbled on LPS causing her to switch to SPS & the corals I brought down to sell or trade for her also switched to SPS. Now most of my sps are originally Marie's but have also added some nice pieces from other sources (Oceanic Corals most recently, but also other reefers).

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Or get some neat LPS frags and forget about the sticks.
That's just silly talk!!
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I was getting bored of lps, then we saw Dez's tank now were all sps .
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I got into sps because keeping a softie/lps reef wasnt challenging/fustrating/time consuming/bank account depleting enough
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