New Saltwater Aquarist, lots of questions!

for SPS metal halide is needed

 

No, your wrong. There are many LED tanks that are all SPS. Look at the PAR ratings on boostled's new fixture, you could keep SPS at the bottom of a 20" tank with that fixture. LED runs cooler then halide but with equal or better PAR. Also LED doesnt need to be replaced for 5-10years

Heres the fixture http://www.boostled.com/collections/frontpage/products/mu-series-135w-led-module

 

so i take it torch and frogspawn are SPS?

 

LPS fdasfdsaf

 

you dont need to be replaced for 5-10years LOL. ok im kidding; didnt know that tbh, since usually i see metal halides for SPS

 

LPS. Your lights can't house SPS unfortunately. And frogspawn/torch corals aren't bad. Just keep it separated. Even if your hand touched the stinger, you'd probably feel nothing at all. IF you want a Mandarin Dragonet, I know that a hang-on refugium would be good for your tank. That way you could breed Copepods for the mandarin to eat.

 

or you could always start a completely new but small tank and just feed phytoplankton for copepods to grow

 

how hard/exspensive would that be? cause id love a dragonett, but i have no idea how I would go about that. lol

 

might be difficult if u just go out and buy one without the proper food. it usually costs like $20 so its not a bad price. its very beautiful but u need to feed it copepods, and without copepods it'll starve. There very picky eaters

 

Mandarin only cost like $9, imo, buy those 3000 pod packs and wait a couple months till you add a mandarin.