Is this enough flow for SPS/acros?
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"newer" biomes are a tough place for acros. Avoid the super expensive acros until you can keep some Bali slimer alive. Keep up all your basic params in check and let the biome settle out. With a dead rock start, it can take a long time.
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Make sure you have nutrients to feed them. Mine were brown and pale like yours till I start feeding my fish heavy and dose aminos. Have to find the right balance to avoid algae
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While still a “young” tank, it has been up 1 1/2 years now. Bali slimer was one of those 6 that died, but it was also a nub that was 1/2” and broke off frag plug before mounting it on a new one and mounting it on rock, so maybe it was just overly stressed.
I got sponges, tube worms, coraline all over the rocks so one would think it is ready for some acros lol.
They have plenty of nutrients lol. I just got to try to keep them under 10 and 0.1.
That all sounds great to me. 18 months is perfect for an acro start. Plow ahead; they will start to stick. If not, maybe send out an ICP as a double check on your test kits and contaminant check.
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Yeah just did one a couple weeks ago through ATI. Only thing I seen was the elevated aluminum, so I took out the marinepure since it is the only thing in my tank known to possibly leach aluminum (it was 63.84). I know it is not high but was wondering if it can prevent my acros from surviving the acclimation to my tank.
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My tank is the same age as yours with roughly the same emphasis on parameters. I also have aluminum elevated on my ICP test but did not remove my MarinePure spheres. I started SPS 3 or 4 months ago and out of over 20 frags only lost one due to shipping. Everything else has great color and slow but steady growth patterns.
Based on what you provided your tank sounds highly ready for SPS and surprised you lost yours initially. Are you dosing alk and cal appropriately to maintain stability? Have you par checked your lights? I know you are focused on flow but I have a mixed reef and only use a moderate level of flow so my LPS and softs don't get beat up. I keep my wave pumps 3 inches below the surface so the SPS get the most direct flow at the top of the tank.
I think you are on the right path to find your balance point and get your SPS to thrive.
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Yes and they look amazing
I studied up on that a bit around here. I run a truckload of Marine Pure and didn't have elevated Al but others "seemed" to. Data was inconclusive about a connection/causation. Leathers don't like Al apparently.
