How fast do SPS corals grow? Part III
Aquarists, especially beginners, are often driven by the question when can they start putting first corals in their new tank and how long does it take until it will turn in a colourful reef biotope? The coral in the picture is a seriatopora caliendium, which lives in our reef tank. The size growth was around 600% over a period of six months. Aquarists wanting to start with their first hard corals in their reef we can recommend two seriatopora species. These corals are less sensitive compared to acropora corals.
- seriatopora caliendium
- seriatopora hysterix
These corals also mainntain their colouring better and have a huge growth potential.
The maintenance parameters we keep up for hard corals.
We would like to give aquarists who want to keep sensitive reef organism in their tank an important reminder.
You need to accept your responsibility to maintain the wonderful world of coral reef. Support farming projects to reduce the number of wild collecting, try to save as much water and energy as you can. Your benefits is to save a lot of money. Many corals and also some fish have their origins in inland aquaculture farms.The water parameters we keep up are:
- No live rocks.
This reduces costs and keeps away aiptasia and other animals you don't
want to find in your tank.
- No bacteria (or bacteria food).
- No water-change. (10%/year, to keep water density constant.)
- We are using a Ca/Mg Reactor, process developed by
ourselves.
- Tunze DOC skimmer.
- Tunze Comeline filter.
- DSB Filter in reef tank (6cm 2-3mm grain size).
- Dosing of main elements which are missing in many salt
mixtures: Borone, Brome (Only own products, Dr. Pilz Main Elements).
- We dose our own trace elements daily: Fe, Mn, Zn, Co, Cu,
V, Mo, J, Ni.
- We use Dr. Pilz Coral Nutrients: Nitrogen, B12, amino acids
if required.
- ......and a lot of patience!!!!!
We will explain in our next post why we should keep parazoanthus in an extra tank only.
I say good bye and would be proud if you would came back to my blog. Yours Dr. Andreas Pilz