really stupid question

[sandmanrieast]

What mean SPS coral ? ....Ive been following this post for some months now but the abreavation SPS eludes me....sorry to be a dum @ss
What coral should I try to grow with 175 watt
mh 10,ooo kelvin ?

 

[Anonymous]

SPS is Small Polyped Somethingorother (which really means Small Polyped Stoney). They have a calcirous skeleton with multiple small polyps. Acropora and Montipora are examples. LPS is Large Polyped--brain corals, bubble coral, hammer, etc.

You can do most anything with the lights you have. I recommend starting with softies--leather corals, colt coral, polyps, mushrooms, devils hand, finger coral, toadstool, etc. especially if the tank is under a year old--it takes a while to settle in.

Some hardier LPS corals for a little later may include open brain, or bubble. Do some reading before you buy an LPS--they can send out some very very long sweeper tenticles.

SPS and anenomes are usually very challenging, so it'd probably be a good idea to cut your teeth on something a bit hardier.

Ty

 

[sandmanrieast]

tyoberg Thank you very much for clearing that up for me.. so a polyp would be a sps?

 

[danmhippo]

No, not necessarily. Stony corals have polyps, so do most of the soft corals, gorgonians, and zoanthids. When you look at a coral specimen when it is fully opened and extended, those little tentacles that reached up and opened up are generally called polyps. Each species of coral has a slightly different names for the part that opens up. "Polyp" is just a generalization.