this I'm sure has been discussed a lot but I get kind of different answers and well a newly cycled tank doesn't provide the necessary environment for corals to thrive does it? I mean, what is it about a reef tank environment that promotes growth? stability in parameters? Or does there also need to be a certain maturity in terms of microbacterial and or microorganism culture ? would love to get some insight on what is it about a more mature tank that allows corals to thrive versus like a 10 week old tank like mine where the corals just kind of seem the same every day and SPS don't really survive. BTW, I finally gotten to the point of I think not meddling so much as meddling has really gotten me not very far with my corals. In saying that however, a couple of days ago I decided to remove a bunch of Cano and dyno strings and siphoned them out and replaced with a beautiful layer of live sand. Tank got crazy cloudy for a few hours and next day an sps Agro bleached white!. tank does look a whole lot better though with new live sand bed . I imagine if there was a more stable environment, my SPS would've withstood the addition of a cup of live sand.