sps tanks, and soft coral

dmilne85 · #1 11/30/2007, 06:24 PM

so all you sps freaks, im wondering if your tanks are like mine and soft corals just dont grow much in a clean water/high light enviornment. For example i have had a piece of xenia for about 6 months and it has hardly grown at all, and i also have one single polp of ricordea and that hasnt grown/spilt at all either in that same time period.
does anyone have good SPS growth/color AND good soft coral growth at the same time? im wondering maybe i should supplement more trace elements, or something is lacking in my system

Oldude · #2 11/30/2007, 06:49 PM

I have a mix in mine and keep LPS/softies near the bottom of the tank with reasonable results.

dmilne85 · #3 11/30/2007, 08:46 PM

hm... anyone else?

rydr119 · #4 11/30/2007, 09:24 PM

I have a toadstool thats growing out of control in my mixed mostly SPS/LPS tank. I also have Kenya tree thats doing very well.

strendo · #5 11/30/2007, 10:31 PM

I have xenia thats growing like crazy. I have to trim it back every 2 weeks because it starts to cover my zoos and sps

dmilne85 · #6 12/01/2007, 12:25 AM

its wierd b/c my xenia used to be out of control and i tried to remove all of it but i found 2 little pieces and they have slowly gown but nothing like they used to. maybe it has to do with only dosing kalkwasser, and using a calcium reactor... i used to dose idoine and trace elements.

snyder2050 · #7 12/01/2007, 12:51 AM

I keep some lps and softies with my sps. Mostly they're on the bottom of the tank.