First time coral keeper..a couple of quick Q's about my new corals.

[ralphie16]

Can acropora be lifted out of water? Can you touch the coral itself to adjust it in your tank? Is there a certain minimum distance it should be kept from other corals or is it have more to do with total water volume of your tank?

I have a 45 gallon with 20 gallon sump.

I have a small Seriatopora hystrix frag (pink birdsnest coral), a 6" diameter colony of some sort of Euphyllia species, and a medium sized frag of some acropora. Will these three corals be ok in a (24x24) 45 gallon tank? Anything I should be concerned about? The Euphyllia is on the bottom and the two frags are up on the rockwork on opposite sides of the tank.

For flow I have two tunze 6025's, one at each corner of the tank

[acrodave]

yes acros can be taken out of water and yes u can touch it as long as u are not pawing it up. and u want to keep the acro about 6-8 in away from your torch-frogspwan

[wentreefgirl]

Birds nest likes high flow. How much flow you have.

[ralphie16]

two tunze 6025's -- one in each corner (~700gph each) in 24x24x24 cube tank. minimal rockwork.

[wentreefgirl]

Oh, your good.