Mixing sps and lps?

[dc4]

Originally Posted by daniella3d

oh! hehe...I missed that completely and that's much better. Yes they should be really cool looking. So no worry then. I am not English so those slang terms are not so familiar to me.

BTW, I have frogspawn, hammer, and 2 large colonies of duncans and I have no problem with any of my SPS.

You got some very nice aquacultured coral and they should be hardy.

The red planet and tri color, whited out a bit from the shipping but other than that they are ok, and yes I was using the slang term of "sick".

Any nice sps pieces you guys can recommend, I love the ones that have different base/polyp colors.

[daniella3d]

If I was you, I would wait a little bit, like 2 to 3 months, before buying too many expensive SPS, and see how those are going to do.

If they survive and thrive, then it will be a confirmation that your tank is suited for SPS. Some of these I bet were quite expensive!

Originally Posted by dc4

The red planet and tri color, whited out a bit from the shipping but other than that they are ok, and yes I was using the slang term of "sick".

Any nice sps pieces you guys can recommend, I love the ones that have different base/polyp colors.

[Lance]

One small warning: some LPS have incredibly long sweepers: for eg: I've heard of some bubble coral with two-foot long sweepers!

[fishytime]

Ive never had too many issues mixing LPS with SPS (given enough space).....the problem Ive had is the flow requirements for the different corals...... the more into SPS I got, the more I bumped up the flow..... the more I bumped up the flow, the more upset my larger polyped LPS got.....I eventually had to get rid of my massive frogspawn......LPS with a lower profile, like acans and favia still do well in my 100 times turnover tank.....that being said if you can shuffle your corals around into lower flow areas and keep them out of reach of each other, then you might be aw-ight

[dc4]

Originally Posted by daniella3d

If I was you, I would wait a little bit, like 2 to 3 months, before buying too many expensive SPS, and see how those are going to do.

If they survive and thrive, then it will be a confirmation that your tank is suited for SPS. Some of these I bet were quite expensive!

I have had a few no-name acro, birdsnest, pocci, montis, cyphastrea, and milli pieces in my tank for about 6 months now and they seem to be doing great. One of them I got was brown and over the months it was in my tank, it has changed to brown/green with light blue tips. The ones in the op are just the first higher end pieces I have bought as they were the first I have ever seen that really caught my eye.

Im running cree leds with t5 retrofit kit, so hopefully they will flourish, I just need to adjust my 2-part dosing for the sps. Is there a calculator for tlf 2-part dosing per gallon?

[rburns24]

BRS has one at http://www.bulkreefsupply.com/store/reef-calculator that's pretty good.