Am I ready for SPS?

[Chrisv.]

Well with careful manipulation you can get the kid to back you up. Start playing finding Nemo at least 4-5 times per week.

This! My kid loves to push the button on the Hanna checker.

 

[i cant think]

This! My kid loves to push the button on the Hanna checker.

This is how I got my son into the hobby (Started him out on a FW and then he asked to change it to SW after seeing a flaming prawn goby in the shop) he loves it, addicted to the fish and now we’re both learning the corals at the same time. I let him choose what he wanted as live stock in the tank and we help eachother out, I do research on certain inverts he wants and he helps research different fish with me.
We often sit at the table as a “gathering” to sort out what our dream fish/coral/invert is, we both agreed on a fish, He took the Pintail and I took the Axilspot hogfish and the corals we have agreed it depends on pricing and colours, he likes the more light colours and I like the neutral colours so we chose to go for some of the duller reds, greens, whites and spots of other colours.

 

[Chrisv.]

This is how I got my son into the hobby (Started him out on a FW and then he asked to change it to SW after seeing a flaming prawn goby in the shop) he loves it, addicted to the fish and now we’re both learning the corals at the same time. I let him choose what he wanted as live stock in the tank and we help eachother out, I do research on certain inverts he wants and he helps research different fish with me.
We often sit at the table as a “gathering” to sort out what our dream fish/coral/invert is, we both agreed on a fish, He took the Pintail and I took the Axilspot hogfish and the corals we have agreed it depends on pricing and colours, he likes the more light colours and I like the neutral colours so we chose to go for some of the duller reds, greens, whites and spots of other colours.

That's fantastic. I learned saltwater with my dad too. We had a really neat cold water tank and used to go collecting fish and inverts from the southern CA tide pools on the weekends.

 

[Staghorn]

I have a question about the growth speed, is it Staghorn speed (Like 2-3cm every week)

I would have to crunch the numbers but. I originally got a great deal on a big piece probably about 4” in every dirrecion that was in May 1st. I cut in half and a small frag broke off. Sorry for the crappy pictures.

 

[Staghorn]

These are pictures from the past week or so

 

[ajm83]

Thanks! Definitely will get those. I’ll try to isolate it.

Pocilopora can spread randomly throughout the tank even if you isolate it. Fairly easy to remove the new bits though.

 

[Staghorn]

Actually a test coral to make sure the tank was ready for sps.