SPS help

[Hawkeye]

Quick question can I add Zoanthids right next to The SPS in that rock at front? and between the euphillia coral?

you can place them wherever you want if you have the time and willingness to prune as needed.
Generally speaking LPS like Euphillia will grow larger and faster than SPS coral. Euphillia also has very strong stingers meaning they will obliterate nearby non-euphillia corals. Eyeballing your fourth pic with the torch- it seems okay to me - but not sure where that SPS is that you mention.

 

[Hawkeye]

Orange cap too is very nice Plus they have it in red too

yep - orange cap is very, very hardy too. Mine has been through the power outage of sandy and then subsequently the air conditioning fail of 2019 (my home only) and still survives today. My kids are annoyed as they say my tank is just orange now. It doesn't help that all the other "colorful" corals didn't make it. Anyways I digress - I would highly recommend a few caps. Monti caps are the only sps coral in my opinion that can grow as fast as LPS.

 

[ericrodriguez]

Thanks a lot I’m gonna start putting Zoanthids Around the SPS tonight... And I already have the Monti cap up

 

[ericrodriguez]

Here

 

[Paulie 069]

Here

I kill sps like it’s going out of style,, have never had one make it yet, if it encrust it’s not for my tank,,, it’s a shame to because I love shelving montis alot they’re so sweet looking and colors are amazing

 

[ericrodriguez]

Zoanthids all around sps and hope there will be no fight there...

 

[ericrodriguez]

Just did a water change hope all will be open tomorrow

 

[Paulie 069]

Just did a water change hope all will be open tomorrow

Don’t be surprised if zoas take couple days to open up, very common, moved into new setting and a water change in one night lot for lil ocean flower

 

[ericrodriguez]

Thanks... but all have been in my system for more than 2 weeks but one which I got like 3 days ago.. That one is open yet don’t know why Because everything else is open

 

[ericrodriguez]

Hi everyone.!! I had my salinity at 23 this morning and just noticed coral likes more than 0.21 -0.22 so I didn’t add fresh water today to try to keep it that way... do you think is that okay? And what salinity you guys run your systems???

 

[myrjon]

my system is .026 .holding back on fresh water really does not do anything.If I had to raise salinity I would make a 5 gal bucket of .026 heated and ready to go.5 gallons taken from tank/add new water from new water bucket.Let sit for a day recheck levels.Repeat if necessary then daily add ro-di for evaporated tank water.

 

[ericrodriguez]

Just got home but later will check Salinity and do as Instructed. Will bring it up to 0.26 and I’ll also try to find out how much it evaporates a day so I’ll add the same Amount of water every day...
thanks....

 

[ericrodriguez]

Hi everyone!!!
sps looking after 8 days and One Zoanthid That didn’t open since. Now starting to open up...

 

[Hawkeye]

Looks great ...quick question - what kind of sand bed are you using? Reason I ask is that I have black sand and the drawback for the type I had was that there was iron mixed into the particles...making the sand highly attractive to mag floats. You can test it by placing a magnet on the outside of the glass to see if the sand is attracted...(or better yet, see if it sticks to a bag of sand outside the tank).

 

[ericrodriguez]

I think is from Hawaii... don’t remember.. But I’m definitely going to take a look later on today.. Thank you for the input...

 

[ericrodriguez]

Good evening...
guys this looks like branching right???

 

[NikkiT]

Yup, it’s bitty little branches

 

[ericrodriguez]

 

[ericrodriguez]

This morning I saw one of my WD been picked out by a dancel fish.
Are they known for this because I had no idea!
This coral had lost of pe in the Frag rack so placed in the main rocks lots of flow/light so should be perfect right but didn’t open enough and looked stressed so put it back.
Was doing better there and I decided to put it back in same rock around a week ago but in the button and looks like this this morning..

 

[john90009]

I have an azure damsel and I have never seen it go after sps, they will be very territorial against over fish or my hand. A few damsel fish have been knock to be sps pest predators and eat bugs on them, but I haven’t heard the azure doing that.