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Acro difficulty
What makes some acros harder to keep than others? light, flow?
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Anyone know?
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Hey there, In my opinion, it is the varying degrees of requirements based on which species of acros you are dealing with. Some require soo much more light than others and there are those that require more flow. then, once you have figured that out, some are so sensitive to the parameters, i.e. nitrates, dKH, calcium,that they don't reach their full potential as far as color. there is also the unknown, how the coral thrives in your system. these are just some of the nuances of this hobby that I have dealt with regarding the different species of acroporas. Hope this helps. Al
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So what species of acro are easier to keep and what are a little more difficult?
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mille is one of the easier ones.
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"stags" are generally easy
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IMHO, I also think it is important to think about where the sps came from and how long it has been in that system.
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Monti digi and caps are probably the easiest.
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just kidding i guess you read the OP too fast. I do it all of the time.
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If you have a perfect system, they all grow well. Most of us don't so the ones that grow better are the ones that can make use of own not so pristene tanks. Those that have better polyp extensions do well because they can feed well on junk is the water as well as light. Best growers for me are the Millies and the Postratas. The staghorns seem to do well too because they can remove waste easier with less than optimum water flow. That's not a real scientific answer, but one that has been passed down from other reefers.
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I have tried a few acros and out of 3 only had one that really took off. I bought a small Acropora Tenius thats yellow with blue tips and have fragged it off and created new colonies a few times. The other acros are still there but really have not grown as well.
I guess it may be some systems are ideal for one or another and some are good for all and some none......
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LOL, Kip, they are easy to keep though. I did read too quick and just thought sps, not acros.
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My poor staghorn has been thru hell and back considering I'm new. Parmater swings, constant re-arranging and it's still trucking on. Not growing like I'd like it but it's pulled thru some serious rookie mistakes.
I gotta stags are pretty hardy, also birdsnest seem to be pretty forgiving. imho
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IMHO, if ya got the lights, got the flow, got the stability (around a year at least), then just control your phosphates to below 0.024. (Maybe nitrates around 0.5, too)
then, it's fairly easy..............
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CA reactors are a MUST, imho...
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I've seen beautiful tanks with 2-part. But most have dosing pumps. I'm learning the hard way that it seems to be a must. Stability. flow. lights.
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What do you use to dose b-ionic?
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I'm currently using baby bottles. 75ml a day and it takes about an hour to drip in. however over the next 23 hours the alk drops off and that stresses SPS and I believe that's part of my problem. 1/2 don't mind 1/2 died. Even using kalk top-off water on a float valve.
But I'm a rookie at this so take my advice with a grain of salt.
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Does b-ionic work better then a kalkwasser drip?
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I just use a cheap aqua medic 2 pump doser. I change the pump lines once a year.
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There is now real "cookbook" recipe for SPS, and that is what draws myself and a great many others to this aspect of the hobby. To get to your original question, tolerance to change is what makes an "easy" SPS compared to a "hard" SPS to keep alive. If you start slow, learn from your mistakes, and are contantly trying to do better than yesterday, in the end, eventually they will ALL be easy to you. However, that takes a while.......... There are people that have been successfull with SPS using countless methods, the best advice I can suggest: Take a look at the tanks you admire, and determine what they do, how they do it and which of these techniques attract you.
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