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Clams one large acro and a few very large monti caps in nitrates 20 - 30, 27 last sunday. PO4 is high as well 0.36 this is my oldest and most succesful tank and also has the dirtiest water of them all. I'm in the process of transferring everything to a new tank but did get a shot of the acro that grew from a single stick frag
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And the clams. They have been growing well. I had a Derasa that tripled in size in a bit over a year but lost it recently due to a broken hinge.
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EDIT I'm not saying my parameters are ideal. Just listing what works for me
 
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Thanks for reply, I’m currently at po4 .25 and no3 10
Clams happy so everything else should but I’m losing colour on a couple montis
 

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Clams one large acro and a few very large monti caps in nitrates 20 - 30, 27 last sunday. PO4 is high as well 0.36 this is my oldest and most succesful tank and also has the dirtiest water of them all. I'm in the process of transferring everything to a new tank but did get a shot of the acro that grew from a single stick frag
PXL_20240430_011437829.jpg
PXL_20240430_011409857.jpg

And the clams. They have been growing well. I had a Derasa that tripled in size in a bit over a year but lost it recently due to a broken hinge.
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EDIT I'm not saying my parameters are ideal. Just listing what works for me
I acquired a clam a few months back.
Tested my phos .43 and nitrate 28 the other day. Heavy bioload.
My clams and acros are loving life in this high nutrient setting as well as all the other corals.
 

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Clams one large acro and a few very large monti caps in nitrates 20 - 30, 27 last sunday. PO4 is high as well 0.36 this is my oldest and most succesful tank and also has the dirtiest water of them all. I'm in the process of transferring everything to a new tank but did get a shot of the acro that grew from a single stick frag
PXL_20240430_011437829.jpg
PXL_20240430_011409857.jpg

And the clams. They have been growing well. I had a Derasa that tripled in size in a bit over a year but lost it recently due to a broken hinge.
PXL_20240428_225244363.jpg


EDIT I'm not saying my parameters are ideal. Just listing what works for me
Wow ! That acro is beautiful! How long did it take to grow that big?
 

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Wow ! That acro is beautiful! How long did it take to grow that big?
Guessing a couple of years. I'm poor at recording coral additions. It was doing poorly in another tank so I figured I'd glue it on the back wall of a different tank and see what happens and it was happy. I had to move it recently to my new tank. I thought I would destroy it but I was able to get it off with minimal damage. The remainder on the plug is already healing and starting to grow.
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That looks amazing. I have my first ever SPS, a PC rainbow, very small, but I hope I can keep it alive. SPS make me nervous, and I really never intended to have them, but a friend gave me this one, so I thought “what the heck” give it a whirl and see what happens.
 

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That looks amazing. I have my first ever SPS, a PC rainbow, very small, but I hope I can keep it alive. SPS make me nervous, and I really never intended to have them, but a friend gave me this one, so I thought “what the heck” give it a whirl and see what happens.
You don't know if you don't try. I hope it does well for you. I've had very good luck with my garf bonzai and myagi tort. Not exotic but it's nice having a few sticks that live and thrive. I've had my share of losses that's for sure. The most annoying thing for me about keeping sps is when one piece RTNs overnight when everything else is fine :crying-face:
 

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