The lighting schedule can also play a huge role in the success of the reef aquarium regarding par levels. Discuss and post your questions about all lps or large polyped stony corals such as acans, elegance, doughnut, candy cane, brains, button, hammers, torch, plate, and all other lps hard corals. Hi all, i have been trying to keep sps and lps corals in my tank for some time, i have noticed that my phosphate levels are registering on my hannah ul range phosphate tester around 0.9 and my nitrates tested with the hannah test kit are around 75ppm I have tried keeping all kinds of easy to. October 2025 potm lps macro potm maroun.c oct 1, 2025 none prev 1 2 3 4 5 next jump to last What is the difference between sps, lps, soft corals, and more
What are some of the others I am new to all of the coral stuff and what to get a better understanding of how it all works. Are there any sources for setting recommendations for the kessil ap9x, other than the brs video It’s a couple years old now I’d love to see what others have their settings set on for lps,sps or mixed reef Any tips or hacks for it
What should a good phosphate level be for a mixed reef be (sps,lps,&softies) My phosphate levels were around a 0.15ppm and i was told that was to low so i brought it up to a 0.30ppm but i think that’s to high What should it be around? I’m looking to know the best photo period or time of peak lighting and ideal par for my lps and limited softies My radon xr15 have a peak lighting period from 12pm to 5pm then they dim down from there I’m running ab+ at 60 percent and i’m getting about 100 to 200 par
Is this too much light ? Hi all, for my tank i have decided to start with the lowest maintenance corals, softies, but eventually i would like to move onto some simpler lps corals My question is, how much more demanding are lps corals compared to soft corals I know i’ll have to start monitoring for po4 and alkalinity. Hi all, so i recently switched my light setting from a high modified version of the wwc ab+ to the coral lab ab+ after doing some research and reading around i read that corals prefer full spectrum compared to the very blue All i did was just lower the whites to 15% and red and green to 5%.
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