Recommendations for coral.

[xnaz]

I have a water box 20 cube with about 10 corals in them already. Tomorrow I am going to get some more, what do you recommend. I don’t like to many encrusting corals but I do like branching out corals and corals like eupheyllia.

 

[Dkmoo]

Need a lot more info about you and your tank before we can recommend something appropriate. There are many many types of corals that fit that description - acros, duncans, gorgonias, montis, canes, birdsnest, blastos, elegance, etc. The requirements for these range greatly - not only terms of parameters, lighting, flow, but also in terms of your own level of expertise in this hobby. Tell us a bit more about what you are looking for and what you and your tank can handle and we can narrow down the choices a bit

 

[PghReef]

A tank is not complete without a purple stylophora and frogspawn IMO but yes need some details to help you including what 10 do you already have?
How old is you tank?
What is you water chemistry?
What is your lighting?

 

[xnaz]

Need a lot more info about you and your tank before we can recommend something appropriate. There are many many types of corals that fit that description - acros, duncans, gorgonias, montis, canes, birdsnest, blastos, elegance, etc. The requirements for these range greatly - not only terms of parameters, lighting, flow, but also in terms of your own level of expertise in this hobby. Tell us a bit more about what you are looking for and what you and your tank can handle and we can narrow down the choices a bit

Cool well I have an acro that’s doing great at the top of my tank and a few sps. Then I have some frogspawns in the middle of my rock work and a Duncan. Then at the bottom I have some favias, favites, and some zoas. I have a AI prime. And my parameters are
PH 8.0
Phoasphate 0
Nitarate 0
Alk 13.5 I know it’s high I’m trying to bring it down with patients and water change.
Calcium 440
Magnesium I don’t know I need to get a test kit.
I like corals that flow and I do not like to many encrusting corals.
I have one power head in there but I might get another to go against the other to make the flow better. The tank has been up for 6 months.

 

[PghReef]

Thanks for the information.
I stand my a nice stylophora. They're hardy, grow quick for an sps, and have long polyps that flow nicely. A pocillopora also fits that nicely.
Elegance corals are awesome to if you can find a healthy specimen they can get huge though.

Whatever you buy, research is care requirements, how hardy it is or isn't, common problems to look fit within that species of coral, etc. If you don't know what you want to on a site like boomcorals.com, battlecorals.com, corals.com, etc and browse the selection.

 

[Dkmoo]

Ok, your high par zones can also get stylos. They branch, and their small polyps do give movement, not flowy tho

Elegance coral is very flowy but their placement could be tricky. Look it up before buying

Gorgonias can work as a background piece, very branch and have some movement in high flow.

Torches is another good choice. Similar requirement to your frogspawn. There are very fancy showstopper color morphs that can be the centerpiece of your tank.

 

[Dkmoo]

Thanks for the information.
I stand my a nice stylophora. They're hardy, grow quick for an sps, and have long polyps that flow nicely. A pocillopora also fits that nicely.
Elegance corals are awesome to if you can find a healthy specimen they can get huge though.

Whatever you buy, research is care requirements, how hardy it is or isn't, common problems to look fit within that species of coral, etc. If you don't know what you want to on a site like boomcorals.com, battlecorals.com, corals.com, etc and browse the selection.

I like stylos too, they are currently the most successful sps in my mixed reef.

 

[xnaz]

Thanks for the information.
I stand my a nice stylophora. They're hardy, grow quick for an sps, and have long polyps that flow nicely. A pocillopora also fits that nicely.
Elegance corals are awesome to if you can find a healthy specimen they can get huge though.

Whatever you buy, research is care requirements, how hardy it is or isn't, common problems to look fit within that species of coral, etc. If you don't know what you want to on a site like boomcorals.com, battlecorals.com, corals.com, etc and browse the selection.

Awesome, yeah I do like stylos they are nice. And I just searched the elegance it looks great thanks for the suggestions. Do you know of another way to bring down alk by any chance.

 

[xnaz]

Ok, your high par zones can also get stylos. They branch, and their small polyps do give movement, not flowy tho

Elegance coral is very flowy but their placement could be tricky. Look it up before buying

Gorgonias can work as a background piece, very branch and have some movement in high flow.

Torches is another good choice. Similar requirement to your frogspawn. There are very fancy showstopper color morphs that can be the centerpiece of your tank.

Ok cool I have been looking at torches cause they honestly look amazing and I was also looking into hammers because they look so cool. Thanks for the feedback I’ll have my eye out for them and the elegance tomorrow.

 

[Dkmoo]

There are additives to lower a
Alk but I would just go with water change and time. How did it get this high in the first place? Was it a dosing gone wrong type of deal or is it a bad batch of salt mix?

I wasn't sure if you also asked about alk in a diff thread, or if I already responded, but watch your PH as you drop the Alk. 13.5 with only 8pH suggest you have a high co2 concentration problem. If yiu bring alk down to 8, for ex, your ph will end up somewhere 7.6, 7.7, and that is not going to be good for your corals.

Try the air test to confirm if you have a co2 issue. If so, maybe its time to get a co2 scrubber or bring in outside air into skimmer.

If you dose alk daily, substituting to dosing soda ash will help too.

 

[xnaz]

There are additives to lower a
Alk but I would just go with water change and time. How did it get this high in the first place? Was it a dosing gone wrong type of deal or is it a bad batch of salt mix?

I wasn't sure if you also asked about alk in a diff thread, or if I already responded, but watch your PH as you drop the Alk. 13.5 with only 8pH suggest you have a high co2 concentration problem. If yiu bring alk down to 8, for ex, your ph will end up somewhere 7.6, 7.7, and that is not going to be good for your corals.

Try the air test to confirm if you have a co2 issue. If so, maybe its time to get a co2 scrubber or bring in outside air into skimmer.

If you dose alk daily, substituting to dosing soda ash will help too.

I was buying high alk salt before I knew what it was but I have since switched two months ago. So that was the problem but I will just keep doing what I’ve been doing because at one point it was at 14.5 a month ago so I guess it’s working. Thanks for the info.

 

[Dkmoo]

Also, as you add more LPS/SPS, keepna close eye on your alk. Once yiur tank matures the corals takes off, ut will suck your alk very fast. For ex, my 29g uses up 12ppm of CA and 1.5 dkh daily.

 

[xnaz]

Also, as you add more LPS/SPS, keepna close eye on your alk. Once yiur tank matures the corals takes off, ut will suck your alk very fast. For ex, my 29g uses up 12ppm of CA and 1.5 dkh daily.

Ok cool good to know. Thanks.

 

[disdareef]

I like torches. They branch and add a nice motion to the tank