New to acros and hobby. 1yr.

[gkmartinez]

I have 5 new acros. I believe one had rtn. one loss. I have another that might be stn. all acros have been in tank at least 3 weeks. The one with srt I fragged a couple of days ago. What is the time frame I should wait to add another acro?

System age 1yr.
75 gall tank w/ 20 gall sump

System type DSB W/LR.

Water flow mag 7 return to scwd.
4 maxi-jet 1200 in display

Filtration type is Heavy skimming and refugium

Lighting 2 250 mh's 10k
65 watt 03 actinic
Actinic comes on 7 am off at twelve
mh's on at 1 pm off at 11 pm

Temp 82
amm 0
nitrite 0
nitrate 0
cal 460
dkh 10
ph 8.2
mag 1350
sal 1.025
periodically use phosphate pad and activated carbon

7 chromis
1 yellow watchman goby
1 pistol shrimp
1 maroon clown
1 hippo
1 peppermint shrimp
1 scarlet red shrimp
2 cleaner shrimp
25 blue legged hermits
1 sand sifting sea star
10 cerith snails


2 green fiji trees
three finger leathers
1 toadstool
yellow polyps
brown polyps
mushrooms
zoo's
pulsing xenia
1 montipora
4 various acros

90 lbs live rock
4" sand bed

top off is kalk mixed with ro/di
additives
kalk, turbo cal, superbuffer, kent iodine, strontium, magnesium, essential elements, coralvite

weekly 5 gall water changes

use a turkeybaster to blast rocks and corals 2-4 week

clean sponges1-2 week

[hwynboy]

Sounds to me like you got all the bases covered...I would say acro away....my only small concern would be your photo period...if you have the lights on for 16 hours a day that might stress your corals out. I would reduce that to 8-12 hours at most. remember these corals come from tropical regions and the daylight fluctuates about an hour give or take as the year goes on. but not much more than that.