are sps corals hard to keep?
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SPS hard corals are generally considered more difficult to keep than the LPS or soft corals and are not recommended for beginners.
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Use caution if you plan on keeping one of these lawnmower blennies in a reef tank setup. They have been reported to become more aggressive as they grow and will not tolerate same or similar species in smaller tanks. It has also been said that they may nip at coral polyps and clam mantles.
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Since the Yellow Clown Goby is peaceful, it makes a wonderful addition to any reef aquarium containing colonies of polyp corals. Here, this member of the Gobiidae family will swim and perch amongst the polyps. Care needs to be taken, however, with SPS corals since the Yellow Clown Goby may nip at the smaller polyps.
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Hard corals are of two types: LPS and SPS. These stand for large polyp stony and small polyp stony, though LPS are sometimes referred to as long polyp stony. Sometimes the last 's' in LPS and SPS is also referred to as scleractinian so small polyp scleractinian, as all hard corals, belong to the order Scleractinia.
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This species does very well in the community tank and it is generally not a difficult species to care for. If you are thinking about keeping dwarf gouramis, take the time to learn everything about them in terms of their ideal tank parameters, diet preferences, and the diseases to which they are prone.
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Increasing ocean acidification reduces the availability of carbonate in the water as well as the pH, so it is more difficult for the corals to form necessary hard skeletons. ... Those corals that retained their zooxanthellae exhibited a 60% reduction in net photosynthesis per cell.
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they are pretty hardy fish , just keep your nitrates down below 40ppm or he might get eye flukes. I lost one to that. Won't bother corals either, so technically reef safe. Sounds like a lot, but they are really very easy fish.
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The main problem is that butterflyfish have a very specialized diet which, depending on the species, may include corals, anemones, and marine invertebrates. This if the primary reason why butterflyfish can be such a challenge to keep in a reef tank, though there are species that have been described as reef-safe.
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There have been as many regular neons in the tank, but they've never survived more than a week. Once you get them past the first few weeks, they're not too difficult to keep alive.
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These fish are active and can be semi-aggressive fin nippers. They should be kept in a community aquarium with fish the same size or larger.
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Bio Cubes are a great tank. I wouldn't say they're designed for sps, but they can maintain as a great lps/soft coral tank. I've had mine up and running for a year and a half now and everything is thriving!
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They quarrel but almost never hurt one another. But if you have less than six sharks in the same aquarium, they'll begin to quarrel, and the weakest ones will be miserable. So if you keep Red Tail Sharks, keep one or keep several, but don't keep just a few together. This guideline is true for most aggressive fish.
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depends on the coral. sometimes its that the coral is very aggressing and placement is difficult due to sweepers, or chemical warfare. other times its the light and flow requirements. other times its the instability of the coral itself.
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Sometimes the bleaching can be reversed with good lighting, good water motion, and good feeding. SPS corals, especially Acropora types, grow rapidly if well cared for. The following factors can cause bleaching: Stress during shipping.
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One should also be aware that a “reef safe” Regal can transform into a coral nipper overnight so the risk is always present. ... Members of this genus, including Bellus, Japanese Masked Swallowtail or Watanabei angels, feed in the wild above the reef and are not prone to grazing on rock and corals in an aquarium.
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Two coral species, elkhorn (Acropora palmata) and staghorn (A. cervicornis), were listed as threatened for related reasons in 2006. In September 2014, 20 of the petitioned species were officially listed as threatened, and in October 2015, an additional three coral species were listed as endangered.
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However, Mollies are perhaps the most difficult of all of the common Live-bearers to keep. Under the normal recommended community tank conditions, the Mollies seem to quickly become sickly, listless and even die.