saintperez
Santiago
I'm looking to have a mixed reef of LPS, SOfties and SPS. Any dangers that I might not be aware of such as Toxins released by one coral that may affect another?
Any dangers of having an mixed reef
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chemical warfare on the SPS from the softies..
Run carbon and change it weekly you'll be O.K. but I know a few people that have taken the softies out and just left LPS and SPS in the tanks and polyp extension is amazing as are the colors.
Run carbon and change it weekly you'll be O.K. but I know a few people that have taken the softies out and just left LPS and SPS in the tanks and polyp extension is amazing as are the colors.
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saintperez
Santiago
Are mushrooms ok? Would I need to get rid of my Toadstool and what about a CArpet Anemone that I just got?
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saintperez
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I'm good on the Carbon. I'm running the BRS dual reactor. You change the Carbon weekly??
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saintperez
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What is Purigen?
cay85
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purigen is from seachem. it is a premium synthetic absorbent. it is a polymer. it removes soluble and insoluble impurities from water at a rate of 500% better than all others. with minimal impact on trace elements. it raises redox,and polishes water. it darkens as it exhausts and is renewable with treatment of bleach. for marine and fresh water. this is loosely parafraised from product lable. i have not regenerated any of mine yet. be carefull of bleach. this will last up to 6 months before you have to regnerate. the only down side that i can see so far is that the polymers are very very small so you have to put them in a very fine mesh filter bag i run mine in a a canister filter. i was afraid of clogging if i put it in my media reacter.
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saintperez
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hmmm.. so basically it does the same thing as Carbon only better? Couldn't you place the media in bag like you would Carbon and then tick it in a reactor?
DaveA
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This sounds like a commercial!
livingcorals
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I just started with sps about 5 months back. Now growing in a mix reef (65 gal) all is well. However side glass is full of RedSea (xenia). Just got done reading a thread about how they can release nitrate back into the tank if a colony dies off. So got rid of all in the glass and I will be cutting off palys near the sps.
I was told that green slimer sps can hold up its own when next to green star polyps.... wow what a BS sale that was lol. So over all its just. SPS at the top most on the mid to right side. GRBTA, and zoas with some mini carpets and trumpet coral on the mid low left to full left side. Using T5. Good growth on everything so far.
I was told that green slimer sps can hold up its own when next to green star polyps.... wow what a BS sale that was lol. So over all its just. SPS at the top most on the mid to right side. GRBTA, and zoas with some mini carpets and trumpet coral on the mid low left to full left side. Using T5. Good growth on everything so far.
As mentioned run carbon and you'll be fine mixing corals (assuming they're not stinging each other obviously). Corals like leathers that give of noxious chemicals only do so when picked at by fish or inverts, and even then the carbon will take care of it (fragging them is another issue...). I'll always keep a nice colony of Green Sinularia in my photosynthetic reefs 
Although there is some truth to this as Xenia are somewhat of a "Nitrate sponge", don't worry about it much. Any coral that dies off and melts away will result in Ammonia which will be broken down into Nitrate in your system.
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Incoralable
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Just to set your mind at ease a little about about mixed reefs with something that you can see, this is my old tank which was six years old when this picture was taken. As you can see, it is heavily loaded with softies of all sorts and the top of the tank was SPS dominant. Only one SPS colony that can be seen in there is wild. The rest were grown from small frags. Some of the SPS colonies were in the tank for about 5 years.
I ran carbon and a skimmer 24-7, with a light fish population. That's it.
http://i67.photobucket.com/albums/h308/owashee/75/1SoftStony2.jpg
I ran carbon and a skimmer 24-7, with a light fish population. That's it.
DaveA
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Anything that dies will give off nitrates. And there are things dying in your tank all the time
I keep a mixed reef, but what I feel is most challenging is managing light.....the SPS like a certain level of light for growth, most of the LPS need low light to keep their nice colors and the softies seem to fall in the middle. The compromise I have taken is keeping the light lower and having less growth with my SPS and enabling my LPS to keep their color. Good luck!
cheers,
Darren
cheers,
Darren
