Hard to keep SPS

#1 Social D

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Posted 11 May 2008 - 11:11 PM

Just wondering has anybody had an acropora of any discription that they have absolutely no joy with
Be it several attempts or a one off i know acros are now quite easy to keep (i say that very loosely)

Being we all keep different tanks are our regimes differ quite alot, im wondering if there might be some acros that just dont do that well despite are best attempts!.

Ill start off .. Ive never had joy with Bottlebrush acros couldnt keep them for more than 3 or 4 months just rtn'd quickly after it started , everything else was fine in the tank aswell.

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#2 jason@jasonsaquatics

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Posted 12 May 2008 - 01:18 AM

Your formosa Tim ,

Had tables ,Nanas, clusters ,millis and other types of formosa just to name a few with no probs .

Had your formosa 4 frags in different areas with no joy .Will try another in the new system and see how it goes

jas

#3 Tony B

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Posted 12 May 2008 - 08:00 AM

No problems with acropora, although in my old tank, I could not keep pink hysterix alive

. Good news in the new tank; two bits grown from frags and doing rather well.

Tony

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#4 Si Clark

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Posted 12 May 2008 - 09:42 AM

IMO the less polyped and thinner branched types tend to be the hardest to mantain.

Bottlebush types and loripes/granulosa tend to have proved more difficult I have found.

#5 pete1234

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Posted 12 May 2008 - 12:38 PM

im with jas here had two of the formosa frags at different times. lost both

#6 SLAPPY

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Posted 12 May 2008 - 02:54 PM

jason@jasonsaquatics, on May 12 2008, 02:18 AM, said:

Your formosa Tim ,

Had your formosa 4 frags in different areas with no joy .Will try another in the new system and see how it goes

That's cos you're not pouring Stella into your tank Jas,

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Posted 12 May 2008 - 08:14 PM

It's eflo's for me the first one did'nt have the best of starts by being delivered rather late!!!!
The second i'm not sure, but sorry Jason!

#8 chriss

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Posted 12 May 2008 - 08:35 PM

I have lost two colonies over the last year, one was a stag that had some die-back on it when I got it and seems to have been harboring a problem all along (the skeleton was green all the way thru?) and the other was a monti that succombed to the dreaded nudi's it came with, so corals lost purely to tank/care conditions zero. (Damned, thats tempting fate!)

Oh, except for the wifes organ pipe coral, it's just whithered away and some high-color zoas that dwindled but a few are fighting back.

Chris