Sps good for smaller tanks
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In my smaller tank, with a careful eye on keeping KH steady and running all LEDs, I've been able to keep monti caps, monti digitata, stylophora and in the past pocillopora happy. The caps tend to fade if I don't feed enough but all in all things stay healthy and grow.
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I have a 20 nuvo full of all kind of non easy sps..I think tank husbandry matters not then the size... You'll have to trim more often, but that's not a problem.
Agree with all three.
I had decent growth and color with not easy stuff.
Just have to follow the basics.
Test light too. That's the big fail w led IMO
Grab a par or lux meter.
That said stylo an pocclipra are easy. Digitatas are cool. I have a frog skin acro that's been very forgiving a Ponape birds nest does crazy stuff under high light cypasteria can become a plague with good dosing or jus mairaing levels and is fond of lower light it seems.
I had decent growth and color with not easy stuff.
Just have to follow the basics.
Test light too. That's the big fail w led IMO
Grab a par or lux meter.
That said stylo an pocclipra are easy. Digitatas are cool. I have a frog skin acro that's been very forgiving a Ponape birds nest does crazy stuff under high light cypasteria can become a plague with good dosing or jus mairaing levels and is fond of lower light it seems.
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Your question led me to start this thread: https://www.reef2reef.com/threads/smallest-sps-dominated-reef-tank.277458/
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I had all sorts of acros in my 14 gallon that did fine. I would avoid monticaps as they can really become dominating in a small tank. I would also avoid very thick SPS like spaths, albros, some stags, and the like, just because they need to be a certain size for them to start to look like a colony, and in a small tank, you cannot give them enough running room without crowding something else out. Stick to smaller branchier species because even as "minicolonies" they still look nice. Tables are another coral I would avoid for the same reasons above.
From a care standpoint, nothing you can't keep alive in a nano.
From a care standpoint, nothing you can't keep alive in a nano.
