60 gallon hex reef tank update

jenniferroman

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so i moved everything from my 14 gallon tank to my new 60 gallon yesterday. i put all the corals at the bottom since the 14 gallon tank lighting had only 96 watt of lighting and the new 60 gallon has 380 watts of lighting. i plan on keeping the corals at the bottom for a week because that is what i heard online. since i put the corals into the new tank all the corals are no were near the size they were before. is this normal? do i really have to wait a whole week to put the corals were i want in the tank? well here are the specs of the tank. right now the tank has only has a percula clownfish. for corals there is a hammer coral, green candy cane, red pimple mushroom, orange zoas, purple torch, blue mushroom, pulsing xenia, red acan and a crocea clam. in the future my goal is to turn this tank into a mix reef tank. for equipment i have a 380 watt medal halide. koralia #2, koralia #1, 2 aqua-tech 175 gph. 350 magnum canister filter. also do you guys think that i have enough flow to keep some sps in this tank. also how do you suggest me putting my power heads so that i have good water flow every were in the tank. any help will be greatly appreciated

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very nice tank! Seems like you did your homework!

I'd wait on adding SPS. Give it a few months , make sure everything is running stable and well, then I'd add some hardier sps...

good luck, and keep us updated!
 
the sand i use is natures ocean premium marine substrate from petco. it says it is 100% natural marine substrate straight from the ocean
 
the first sps corals that i am planning to get is the red capricornis montipora, pink birdnest coral and orange montipora digitata
 
Those are definitely 3 of the easiest SPS corals to start out with. You should have no problems with those once your ready to add them.

One thing I will mention though, is both the red cap and birdsnest can really take up a lot of room in your tank once they get going.. I decided yesterday that my birdsnest colony has to go, it is taking up way too much valuable real estate.
 
I am sure once I rip it all out I will have quite a few large frags of it. Even if I left a small piece within just a few months it would start to get out of control again. Plus, one negative I have learned about birdsnests, is they grow in such a way that no clean up crew can get within the branches/rock to clean the rock. I have major hair algae growing under my birdsnest that nothing can get to.

The red cap, ya, you can definitely frag that as it grows to keep the size in check.
 
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