acroporas

[wowzuhs]

Been thinking for months about jumping the gun and getting into all this SPS madness and I've finally decided to do it. My buddy Derrick started me off with some SPS starter frags, and yesterday I picked up an acro for my tank. My system has been up for a while, lots of goodies growing. Coraline algae has become a pain to take care of in my tank, should I just scrape it off so that the SPS get enough calcium? And anyone got some tips they can throw at me so I don't get into a neverending black hole of SPS death?

 

[lowbudget]

scrape it off the rock or the wall of your tank?

 

[hbtl_ofndr]

I might be wrong, but I don't think scraping you coraline reintroduces Ca to your system. It does however make your tank look like poo if you don't scrape it from the glass.

My tip. Get a doser or a reactor and test religiously. Water that a softy or a fish can thrive in will kill your SPS dead.

 

[Six2seven]

keep the alkalinity stable. if you need to adjust it, adjust slowly.

 

[wowzuhs]

I've got the API test kit for calcium, you think that's enough??

 

[wowzuhs]

As for the Alk, what's the correlation between that and dKH? The test kit came with the dKH instead of an Alk test

 

[campge]

as for the alk, what's the correlation between that and dkh? The test kit came with the dkh instead of an alk test

its the same thing..............

 

[Six2seven]

Alkalinity can be measured in DKH or meq/L. both are the same just different verbage.

 

[lowbudget]

same sheiiiit. quote from george lopez

 

[wowzuhs]

Ah alright. So far it looks like the corals are happy.. I'm probably gonna start doing these SPS in my smaller 24g first. You guys think bi-weekly water changes will keep the essential nutrients in the water good? I use H2OCEAN as my main salt mix haha.

 

[562Reefer]

i'd go 10-15% weekly WC on your 24g. It's pretty hard to keep params stable in a smaller tank, especially if you plan on keeping sps. IMO

 

[wickedfish]

I'd think 2 gallons weekly of fresh saltwater would be fine for your tank to keep stable conditions. Now in the future when things get larger a doser would be best for alk and calcium.

 

[Six2seven]

I'd think 2 gallons weekly of fresh saltwater would be fine for your tank to keep stable conditions. Now in the future when things get larger a doser would be best for alk and calcium.

completely agree. test, test, test and you will know when you need to get a doser.

 

[lowbudget]

weekly would be butter

 

[hbtl_ofndr]

Alkalinity can be measured in DKH or meq/L. both are the same just different verbage.

Not exactly the same. If your kit is meg/l you will need to convert to dKH. i.e. 11dKh is 3.93 meg/l

Ex: if I said my dKH was 3.93 the guys on here would sh!t, but 3.93 meg/l not so much sh!tting...

 

[wowzuhs]

Looks like weekly changes it'll be for my little nano.. so far it looks like the acro is doing good and I haven't tested my params since my last water change two weeks ago. All the polyps fully open at night. Still have no idea what type of acro mine even is and what name it even is as well. I'll probably post a pic later for y'all to see if you can help me ID this thing.. It has a yellowish/neon green body with pink/purple tips.

 

[hbtl_ofndr]

It has a yellowish/neon green body with pink/purple tips.

Sounds beautiful!

 

[Reefcube29]

I wanna see a pic already,.. haha

 

[wowzuhs]

So here's the acro guys. Can someone help me ID this thing?

 

[wowzuhs]

Anyone? :O