The Importance of Water Changes for your SPS Colors?

[tomtoothdoc]

I went to get a mili today but they didn't have any so I got an arrow crab and clown gobi. Close anyway.

lol....that was pretty close....like last time i went to get newlife spectrum pellets and came home with trochus snails instead....lol.

a suggestion of acro to test in your tank, a strawberry shortcake.....i only know it by the trade name not the genus/species name. it has always been my nemesis for years. i have killed at least 4-5 of those frags. the two i have now just browned out after a year of colors....and they are horribly slow grower for me. if these two frags die, i'm done with the strawberry shortcake!!!

 

[CoralReefer]

lol....that was pretty close....like last time i went to get newlife spectrum pellets and came home with trochus snails instead....lol.

a suggestion of acro to test in your tank, a strawberry shortcake.....i only know it by the trade name not the genus/species name. it has always been my nemesis for years. i have killed at least 4-5 of those frags. the two i have now just browned out after a year of colors....and they are horribly slow grower for me. if these two frags die, i'm done with the strawberry shortcake!!!

Lol I can relate, I have only had one that I bought from Kenny at POTO. Had it for a couple months had great colors then RTN over night

 

[annanymous]

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Great thread...much to learn from!
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[Paul B]

This wek I went to get a possum wrasse and got a bunch of blackworms and some kind of weird gobi. But I am still looking for those corals, and that possum wrasse

 

[mheaven]

The time I had my sps tank running the only filter method I had was a skimmer. No carbon, no phosphate remover , no uv just skimmer. I did a 5 gal water change once a week, plenty of corals/ growth.


Tank was a 40 breeder, some here had a chance to see it. This pic does the tank no justice. I had about 12 fish in this tank, feed them 2 cubes of food every day.

 

[d5332]

Singing Mariah Carey "HERO" lmaoooo high five Paul

Jackson, unfortunately I agree with almost everything you said and I hate when I agree with people.
The only reason my tank has SPS at all is because years ago some people on here said SPS could never grow in a tank such as mine because of the conditions and my practices. So I bought some SPS frags, and the dam things grew all over the place.
As to their color, you are correct that I don't have a lot of color in my tank, but in my defense, I don't think I have any colorful corals to begin with. My tank is mostly LPS such as frogspawn, hammars, and gorgonoans because I just like the movement better than SPS. The 5 or 6 types of SPS I have are acropora which is the same color it was when I got it, kind of a greenish, the montipora which are almost becomming a pest are pink. I can't be sure how pink they are supposed to be and as a man I only see one tint of pink. Pink Pink. There is an old green coral which I forgot the name of. (I was married for 6 months before I remembered my wife'e name) I am not real good with names but I will try to find a picture.
They grow as fast as I think they should grow. The acropora,s are all over the place and seem to double in size in 6 months or so.
Now I know you are going to force me to buy some colorful corals just to see if they do well. So the next time I go to a LFS I will see what they have.
The pictures of my corals don't look colorful because I never take pictures with a flash so the colors are muted.

This guy is becomming a pest and is now all over the tank, it grew from a 1/2" frag. There is no color in this picture because as I said, I don't use a flash, and it is a lousy picture anyway.
You can see my photography skills are not great as the pictures all have a different tint even though it is the same tank.

Here it is much younger

This is one of my oldest SPS, it is lime green and it was always lime green. I think thats the best that coral gets, but I could be wrong. Again, no flash

This is my oldest SPS, and like the last one, I have no idea how old it is but it is up there.
Obviousely I don't use photoshop as I don't even know how.

This monti frag is now about 8" across and grows wild, it is pink and I think it was always that color pink. Pink is pink and as a man, I only know one color pink. Pink Pink

I just like soft corals better but let me know the name of a coral that you don't think will grow in my tank and I will get it as a test. It will most likely croak but I like a test.

 

[d5332]

Paul, as a hobby, meaning past time, pets, your tank is too envy. I am kind of trying to do the same, mixing lps and sps but I dont want to be losing sleep over it or hosting seminars to discuss my practices, its just a pass time for me, I spend money when i have to or when I get bored but by no means do I want a fish tank to over take my free time.

your tank looks great

 

[Paul B]

d5332, it is also just a hobby for me and by far not my only hobby as I have many. I spend very little time on the tank as I have no reactors, test kits, sump, or most other things, I only dose ice melter for calcium and baking soda, and I usually forget to do that. I change some water when I get time maybe 5 times a year. There are no set schedules. I feed the tank when I am near it and sometimes they do not get fed for a couple of days because I am not home. It is just there and for the most part it takes care of itself. For me it is a great hobby because I love to build things and it allows me to build rocks, lights, skimmers etc. I can do that stuff when and if I want, or I don't have to do anything to it. There are never any diseases to think about so I don't and have never lost sleep over the tank.
Now that it is almost summer most of my time will be spent on my boat and I will rarely even look at the tank.

 

[tomtoothdoc]

how about putting a tank on your boat? i'm sure you can figure a way if you really want to. the water change will be a breeze!

 

[d5332]

next time you are bored and near the tank please consider fragging some of those hardy sps and selling me frags :scratch:

Good stuff!

d5332, it is also just a hobby for me and by far not my only hobby as I have many. I spend very little time on the tank as I have no reactors, test kits, sump, or most other things, I only dose ice melter for calcium and baking soda, and I usually forget to do that. I change some water when I get time maybe 5 times a year. There are no set schedules. I feed the tank when I am near it and sometimes they do not get fet for a couple of days because I am not home. It is just there and for the most part it takes care of itself. For me it is a great hobby because I love to build things and it allows me to build rocks, lights, skimmers etc. I can do that stuff when and if I want, or I don't have to do anything to it. There are never any diseases to think about so I don't and have never lost sleep over the tank.
Not that it is almost summer most of my time will be spent on my boat and I will rarely even look at the tank.

 

[Paul B]

I really should frag this sponge as it is about 10" across and it taking up a lot of real estate. Those dam acropora also grow like weeds all over the place as I keep breaking them by accident.
I never sold anything but the next time you are in Long Island come buy and I will give you a piece or two.

 

[s2nhle]

tagging along.