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Originally Posted by 4G1v3N  Is that why you guys are advising? that way i could have the sps in the middle and lps/softies on the sides. |
That was your plan and I had no problem with it. If you keep your water clean enough, you could go with 3 250's IMO and raise SPS anywhere you wanted to.
Here's what typically happens. People get used to raising 'dirty water' corals and eventually want to add SPS to the mix. Within a couple of weeks, the SPS stops being colorful and starts to become a brown stick. There's a reason for that. SPS live in oligotrophic conditions and they put their SPS colony or frag into a nutrient-rich environment. Zoox are brown (vast oversimplification) and they start reproducing rapidly. Therefore, the colony or frag quickly becomes brown.
There's two ways to fix this....crank up the lighting until the coral gets too much Oxygen from the zoox and kicks most of the zoox out. (Then the color returns). Another way is to keep the water extra clean and then the zoox doesn't build up and turn the coral brown. In the second case, you don't need massive lighting at all. Most of my SPS prop tank was lit by nothing more than PC lighting which most people think is impossible.
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