NPS display tank setup advice

dkevink · 11/08/2018, 12:23 AM

Wondering what others have done to setup NPS display tank? My current NPS, are a couple dendros, a cup coral and various sun corals that are in a 20 gallon all in one nano. I have most of them on egg crate with a couple sitting on a large piece of live rock. I had a large sun coral colony, but lost most of it, fragged what survived to save a few surviving pieces. Black sun coral still doing ok. I feel like this looks like frag tank, since feeding them is a daily chore, and tank is set up to do that.

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Tank is really nutrient rich. I have to feed mysis shrimp heavy with turkey baster every day to keep them healthy. The Trial and error I went thru to get to this point would take several posts to describe the mistakes I’ve made. I do a 90% water change every couple of weeks when nitrates get greater than 30 or 40. I only use room light on tank, no algae problems that way. Looking for what others have done to overcome the challenges of NPS.

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11/08/2018, 12:23 AM	#1
dkevink Registered Member Join Date: Feb 2017 Location: Columbus Ohio Posts: 51	NPS display tank setup advice Wondering what others have done to setup NPS display tank? My current NPS, are a couple dendros, a cup coral and various sun corals that are in a 20 gallon all in one nano. I have most of them on egg crate with a couple sitting on a large piece of live rock. I had a large sun coral colony, but lost most of it, fragged what survived to save a few surviving pieces. Black sun coral still doing ok. I feel like this looks like frag tank, since feeding them is a daily chore, and tank is set up to do that. 4FB53F31-844A-4996-9B25-6FB923A7D5C6.jpg AFAB2510-E343-491C-A0AA-6502C56DEA63.jpg 3D22BFB4-FB93-44AC-98EC-D06D53EEC2F8.jpg E61865A5-60B3-4B24-B90F-128D65B75777.jpg Tank is really nutrient rich. I have to feed mysis shrimp heavy with turkey baster every day to keep them healthy. The Trial and error I went thru to get to this point would take several posts to describe the mistakes I’ve made. I do a 90% water change every couple of weeks when nitrates get greater than 30 or 40. I only use room light on tank, no algae problems that way. Looking for what others have done to overcome the challenges of NPS. image.jpg