Lps or sps

[Yellow⌚man24]

Hi guys so my reef/fish tank is going on 8 months old. I have a few corals here they are, 1 hammer coral, 1 zoanthid, 1 red war favite and 1 blue rhodactis mushroom. I was wondering if I should only put LPS corals into my reef tank for now considering it is still relatively new? Thanks

 

[Spare time]

It is up to you. The coral doesn't care how old the tank is, just how well you keep the tank.

 

[Philly Reefer]

Hi guys so my reef/fish tank is going on 8 months old. I have a few corals here they are, 1 hammer coral, 1 zoanthid, 1 red war favite and 1 blue rhodactis mushroom. I was wondering if I should only put LPS corals into my reef tank for now considering it is still relatively new? Thanks

How big is your tank? I have the same dilemma.
Mine is 40breeder and its too hard to get some part of the tank to be low flow and the sps part to be harder flow.
So due to the small tank, I decided to stick with LPS

 

[Grapefruit509]

just under 1 year old 30 gal inno marine mixed reef first time Sw, some of my sps died at the beginning.
maybe 2 or 3. Got About 3 Monti and 3 Acro doing good Rn.

 

[Jekyl]

SPS will depend on you more than tank age or size. You need very good lighting, flow and chemistry

 

[animatedcorals]

Well LPS prefer sometimes a little higher nutrient water where sps mostly prefer lower nutrient water. It’s one question I always thought about. If our system is new and has low nutrients wouldn’t sps thrive? Where as older tanks have more higher nutrient water so you would think they’d thrive in those. Then again stability is everything and tank maturity does help! Tremendously!

 

[Jekyl]

Lot of people run 5 to 10 nitrate for sps and lps. Works great for both. Lighting and dosing beyond that.