Jumped into sps

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Originally Posted by xenon

I've seen two frags from the same mother colony go into a tank with high flow and the other in low flow.

The frag in the high flow tank grew way more heads and was very dense/thick. The frag in the low flow tank was very thin and branchy and looked very fragile. The difference was night/day.

I think that's one of the more important aspects of flow. To get a natural and very solid growth form from the coral, it should have a fair amount of flow energy directed across it. While most SPS will live with minimal flow, the skeleton will be weaker and thinner. IME, anyway.