SPS under PC lights

[bauder1986]

Hmm, PC....first off eeww lol.

One thing is find a frag somewhere...just a frag of SPS, go for a forest fire milli or something along those lines and put it up high and try it out.

Second thing is, if you are using PC's please dont use those dreadful 50 / 50 lights, use only straight actinics and straight 14000k or 10000k bulbs. you should have better par with those, and better spectrum.

Third thing is, with my experience with SPS in nanos, your flow, your nutrient cleaning systems and what you should not do for dosing.

Obviosly you will probably have some lower to medium flow LPS and softies so you are gonna have to play with your flow rate and direction to please the SPS and the LPS and softies. Its a pain but there is a way.

Your dosing is a HUGE thing, with a nano and SPS avoid all the nice little products that boost growth, color and what not (coral vit, reef roids etc) stick to simple calcium monitoring, Mg, and Kh and rely heavily on your water changes to provide the essentials for the SPS in a small system.

Have a skimmer on the tank too, bioload or no, it helps alot since SPS are such wimps when it comes to water purity.