Mixed vs sps only

Actup85 · Sep 17, 2018

Just curious as to how many mixed reefs out there. been in the hobie for over a year now and everyone is telling me to go full sps instead of staying mixed due to the difficulty of pleasing all the corals in a mixed tank.at the moment mine is more sps dominated.

mike werner · Sep 17, 2018

welcome to r2r!I would say do what pleases you the most.What do you enjoy the most?For me I started out with softies and graduated to sps and lps keeping one or two softies I really liked.It's all personal preference imo.

Daniel@R2R · Sep 18, 2018

Following this conversation! I personally prefer a mixed reef. There are plenty of examples of success with mixed reef tanks, so it doesn't seem logical to me for people to say that they can't be done.

Hypen2000 · Sep 18, 2018

Yup my vote is mixed tho at 7 votes, everyone has said mixed so far!

Think you can keep mixed coral happy with smart placement in the tank. And if your parameters can satisfy sps dominant, than it should be no prob for mixed. Plus I think, total preference here, that mixed looks better bc you have more variety. And with some lps and softies, you get more movement in your tank which visitors seem to like.

Actup85 · Sep 18, 2018

I agree I've had a mixed tank the whole time for the most part but just happened to some how shift to more of a sps .After I put my first acro in and it was doing good I may or may not have become addicted to them lol.