The secret to LPS success is......?

[Bill@IA]

Originally Posted by Douglas

Any of my LPS seems to perrish after a month or two, whats up with that? I keep SPS, Clams, Anenomes, and all kinds of inverts and fish, but LPS,...I seem to have no luck with LPS, what's the trick?

PH 8.1-8.4
Kh 8.5
Cal 450
Mag 1350
Po3 - .00ppm
No3 - 0
temp 78.8
Sal - 1.025
ATI hybrid lighting.

Unless you are feeding your LPS twice a week, the problem could be that your water is too clean. Keeping your Phosphate and Nitrate at 0 can even be hard on SPS.
You may also be giving your LPS too much light. They certainly won't need the intensity your ATI Hybrid is capable of delivering them, for long periods of time.

Here are pictures of one of our LPS systems that we are having a lot of success with.