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Tidal Gardens

Tips for a Euphyllia Dominated Reef Tank

1

Tank Featured

10

Minutes

2022

Released

This video provides an update on Tidal Gardens' Euphyllia show tank, which is now more accurately called a Fimbriophyllia and Euphyllia tank due to the dominance of hammers and frog spawn. The host shares recommendations for lighting, flow, water chemistry, and feeding for this type of LPS-dominated reef, emphasizing that less can be more in many aspects. Future plans include adding more fish and installing ozone and a kalkwasser dosing system to the larger farming system it's connected to.

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00:00:18Introduction to the Euphyllia show tank 00:01:14Tank update and coral aggression 00:01:57Lighting recommendations 00:03:29Flow recommendations 00:04:43Water chemistry discussion 00:06:30Feeding recommendations 00:07:57Next steps for the system 00:08:28Future system-wide upgrades (ozone, kalkwasser)

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Tank Specs

Every spec, brand, and livestock mention pulled from the host's narration. Click any tank tour above to compare.

Tank 01

Euphyllia Show Tank

250

Gallons

LPS dominant

Style

This 250-gallon tank is dedicated to Euphyllia and Fimbriophyllia corals, primarily hammers, frog spawn, and torches. It's lit by three Orphek Atlantik lights and has minimal flow from a return pump and two powerheads. The tank is tied into a larger SPS farming system, resulting in low nutrient water parameters, which surprisingly works well for these LPS corals.

Lighting

Orphek Atlantik ×3 $794.75in stock

Flow

Aqua Illumination Nero 5 ×1 $259.99in stock,

Dosing

calcium reactor, two-part, kalkwasser

Filtration

activated carbon

Feeding

no direct feeding currently, experimenting with powdered plankton in the future

Corals

3

hammersfrog spawntorches

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Equipment mentioned in this tour that we cover in our gear catalog. Click through for full specs, retailer comparison, and where-to-buy.

Orphek Atlantik V4

Mentioned as: Orphek Atlantik

Aqua Illumination AI Nero 5

Aqua Illumination

Mentioned as: Aqua Illumination Nero 5

Jebao DCT-6000 Return Pump

DCT-6000 Return Pump

Mentioned as: Jebao

In their own words

Notable Quotes

I think oftentimes as reef hobbyists we'd like to collect every kind of coral that we like and we throw it all into one tank.

Lights like this are absolutely not necessary just to keep Euphyllia and Fimbriophyllia.

I think that people typically overdo flow for Euphyllia and Fimbriophyllia.

These hammers, torches, and frog spawn are one of the most photogenic corals when it comes to blowing around in the water column, so you really don't have to overdo it for their sake.

If you are worried about needing to feed these things, do not worry, they will do perfectly well without any kind of direct feeding.