better power supply for SPS

[Peppe]

hello guys, who can tell me the best food available on the market for SPS?
What parameters do you have in your tanks and what food do you use to get the best coloring in sps?

 

[Dan I]

You got a couple of choices out there. You got the popular choice which is Reef Roids. A majority of reefers use this to feed many of their corals and have great response from them. However, all coral food pretty much work and it all depends on your choice. I personally switch between Coral Frenzy and Reef Roids from time to time. I get good response from both of those choices and am pleased with them.

 

[jda]

Light is the best food, IMO. Chasing your tail by feeding the tank with an inferior lights... getting a higher quality light will do more.

I do not feed my tank anything... fish get fed and that is it.

 

[Peppe]

can you post photos of your tanks?

 

[mtraylor]

FWIW, I don't feed my corals any coral food and I get pretty good coral color with just steady tank parms.

 

[Waters]

The best SPS food is fish poop

 

[Kamden Uelton]

My SPS eat Brightwell Aquatics Blizzard-O, I feed it 3-4x a day (it is food for my feather stars), The larger polyp'd corals are the only ones that appear to be consuming the food though.

 

[Peppe]

FWIW, I don't feed my corals any coral food and I get pretty good coral color with just steady tank parms.

Can you post Photos of your reef? What si your no3 and po4 level?

 

[mtraylor]

Sure. Here is some old photo's
https://www.reef2reef.com/threads/the-ghl-mitras-lx7-led.287227/page-7

Phosphates are .05ppm
Nitrates are around 10ppm

 

[drawman]

Agreed on fish poop for acros. Can't get much better than that along with quality lighting.

 

[mtraylor]

Can you post Photos of your reef? What si your no3 and po4 level?

Couple more shots. On the link I sent, it shows progression of a rainbow monti in my aquarium. The corals only get what every morsals of food that my fish can not get. I'm a
heavy feeder however. My LPS and sps are on their own to get what ever they can get. They seem to do well for themselves. I feed frozen foods to the fish and I do not rinse the
food. That way whatever extra stuff is consumed by corals. I scrub all algae in the aquarium and let it be consumed by the corals. Both LPS and SPS. When I scrub my returns
the corals love it. Polyp extension is great during this time.

 

[mtraylor]

One more .
Lost this guy on top the other day. I have been having issue with my sps growing into each other and having sps wars. After finally fragging the one below enough to stop it
from over riding the top one. I cut all the pieces that were touching the top coral and causing issue. As soon as I was done.The top one STN'd on me. Not sure what it was
called, but it looked like It had batteries in it.

 

[markalot]

10 Nitrates are the key IMO, if I let them fall and don't feed I get pale corals. Beautiful corals mtraylor, sorry about the sudden RTN, it's why I dread fragging acros, even if they are at war.

 

[mtraylor]

Thanks. Yeah I would have never thought it would STN. I never touched the one that STN'd. It was the one getting bullied. I thought I did it a favor by taking down the branches that were invading it. Apparently not.

 

[Peppe]

fantastic colors... but for example... i have these levels of no3 and po4.. NO3=0 PO4=0,03... I can not increase no3.. this is my corals...
https://www.reef2reef.com/threads/my-70g-reef-tank.361850/