Fish' i would frag as many as you could leaving the dead parts ,
Maybe if your lucky some will survive and grow
If you desire some hard corals such as that 'i might suggest you try some Montapora plate coral' it's a very nice deep orange /red , it can tolarate No3 more so.
You might also try purchasing sps that are relitivly small colonys
( hence if the colony is small it's most likley been in that grow out tank for a shorter time than a larger colony would have been or its been propigated sevral times by some one and able to withstand some poor water quality).
Like every thing else it's hard to aclimate and have somthing thrive/survive in somthing that has a more poor water quality than the grow out tank it came from.
If you ever notice some LFS and online sellers that sell SPS ,don't have fish in the grow out tank togehter
If they do it's like one fish . and no LR ( if any at all )
And the water that their growing this sps in has like a 1 inch sand bed, and theres absouluty NO phosphates, nitrates,amonia,etc.
And they keep there alk/PH/salinity, etc. exact, their tanks are sterile as i like to refer to them as.
Last edited by wildreef; 04-26-2008 at 04:44 PM.
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