That makes no sense. If the biome isn’t there to support coral, how would a 100% water change everyday have coral grow long term? That just implies that I need to have clean water with stable parameters. And then what about nitrate and phosphate?
Sorry. I should have written it better. I’m writing on my phone. I think the reason why people can’t keep sps / torches. Is because the biome isn’t there. I don’t have any proof. But when I first started in 99. My 300 was 4 large pieces of dead rock. I struggled for a very long time. My friend Jesus had a 240. He had a full blown sps aquarium. It was started with all live rock. Nothing would die. He would give me frags and they would die in my aquarium. I gave him frags that were not doing well and they got better in his aquarium. I tried to do everything like his husbandry. Even fish. I gave him a blue line angel. It was about to die. He put it in his sump that was in his garage. That blue line lived in his sump for over a year. Until he broke his aquarium down.
Another friend that owns the aquarium store. He said the biome would grow on the surfaces.water changes everyday, The water would be perfect. Dunno. That’s what he told me years ago. Never tried it.
Oh. He also said something about the ocean and it being clean and our aquariums are dirty. But I was lost by then, I was still a noobie back then. As for phosphate and nitrates. There weren’t any test for that back then. It was like 2000ish.
So yeah. I do believe there is something that comes out of the rock or lives on the rock to support coral health. On the flip to that. I know guys in LA that start with dead rock and they seed their rock with sps frags. They put in a lot of frags and they get it going. But those guys are super experienced. Dunno. There’s some talent in LA. They say. You just have to know what to look for. But they never told me what that is. Sorry. I don’t know that secret.
I linked a chat earlier. ABC corals ( Vincent ). He talks about why people can’t keep sps. He also states that the biome isn’t there and tells you how to build it with zeofit. I built my biome differently. I asked people that I knew that had old aquariums if I could have a small piece of rock or sand.