Having a mix reef is more difficult than sps tank

[CyberGuy]

People often think that sps tank is the most challenging tank to keep and be successful but I think that a mix tank is the toughest.

The reasons are as follows:

1. Need to control flow for different types of coral. You cannot just have high flow everywhere

2. Need to control lighting and coral placement. You cannot just put most corals on the top and blast the light.

3. Feeding is more difficult. You cannot just depend on lighting to do the "automatic" feeding for sps/lps. Some LPS need special type of feeding.

4. Last but not least...... chemical warefare.

 

[TerraFerma]

Yes that’s why I keep an SPS tank

 

[Victor_C3]

Yup, I agree with every word of that. I kept a hammer coral in my last SPS dominated tank and it was always restricting what I needed to do with my SPS colonies.

The balancing act of trying to make everything happy in a mixed tank is way more work than a pure SPS system. I’ve never understood why people have so many issues with SPS. I just throw frags in my tank and they just seem to grow without issue.