First ACRO

golfish

golfish

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Originally posted by Marco333
I purchased my first Acropora coral this weekend...How does it look and what type of food is best for it?
Thanx

Hmm, I wonder about this thread:thinking:
Did you do any research on Acro's yet? Is this in your 10 gal tank? what kind of lighitng do you have for this coral?
 
effloresce

effloresce

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that is a Larry jackson tri color acro, although an easy acro still need high lights and stable tank, please research
 
nicky1.8t

nicky1.8t

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pc lighting is not gonna cut it when you are dealing with acros. They need the intensity of metal halides, sorry for the bad news
 
dburr

dburr

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How does it look
Looks brown.
that is a Larry jackson tri color acro
How can you tell from that pic?:notsure:
I have 96 watts pc on the 10 gallen tank
ot intense enough. Can you get a MH on that puppy?
 
golfish

golfish

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IME, its going to be very hard to keep the water quality you need for acros in a 10 gal tank.
 
flatzboy

flatzboy

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Originally posted by Marco333
I purchased my first Acropora coral this weekend...How does it look and what type of food is best for it?
Thanx
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v2...o333/coral.jpg
I doubt it will ever color up with your lighting and its very easy to overfeed in a 10g. which will cause high nutrients resulting in a brown colored coral. I'd also keep on top off yer calcium-alk-ph you need to balance those out if you want to see it grow it all but your probably not gonna see a whole lotta growth with those lights.. You don't need to feed it other then stuff that is already in your water acros just eat up a lot of calcium. Please research next time before you buy something. But you could always upgrade your lighting to a 70 watt hqi or preferably a 150 watt hqi.:D
 
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