Matt

Hey All You SW Experts,

What Does "LPS" and "SPS" mean. Please help me and if you could explain them to me i would greatly appreciate it aswell. Thanks Alot.

Also if you are a SW expert could you please visit this thread Click Here for the thread.

Thanks ALot,

Matt

Mike19

small or large polyped stony (SPS/LPS) i cant really explain them well but i believe its got to do with different corals

Mike

Matt

Thanks Alot Mike. That Explains Alot

Matt

au01st

It has to do with the size of the polyps. LPS (Large Polyp Stony) corals have, as the name implies, large polyps. These include brains, candy cane, frogspawn, hammer, etc. SPS (Small Polyp Stony) corals have small polyps; these are your acros, birdsnest, digitata, etc.

agsansoo

LPS - Large polyped Scleractinian (stoney coral)
SPS - Small polyped Scleractinian (stoney coral)

Matt

Thanks Alot you guys

Now i understand

-Matt