Beginner coral suggestions

pulse

pulse

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i run a 150 gal fowlr and want to begin experimenting with corals. can anyone make suggestions about what to look at?
info about my tank:
i run actinic and flourescent lighting, i am not sure of the numbers, but it is not super bright.
just put in a 7 gal refugium
at last check my nitrates were 40, pH 8.4, salinity 34
here's my census:
Magnificent Foxface
Lyretail Anthias
Neon Goby
Royal Gramma
Ocellaris Clownfish
Banggai Cardinal
Peppermint Shrimp
Blood Shrimp
Arrow Crab
Various Snails
Fanworms
 
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markeo99

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most coral need a lot of light although there some nonphotosynthetic coral out there just they require spot feeding
 
silverdak

silverdak

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I would say things like zoa's and mushrooms and maybe even some trumpets..thats what i sstarted with and now I am up to a galaxy and devils hand and thats only with PC lighting... my tank is also only 14G and the furthest they can possible sit is like 13 inches
 
pulse

pulse

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Originally Posted by SilverDak
http:///forum/post/2726652
I would say things like zoa's and mushrooms and maybe even some trumpets..thats what i sstarted with and now I am up to a galaxy and devils hand and thats only with PC lighting... my tank is also only 14G and the furthest they can possible sit is like 13 inches
Are there any species, in particular, that you would recommend?
I want to pop some names into a search engine and see what they look like, cost, etc.
 
silverdak

silverdak

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my LFS doesn't really give them names... I figure most mushrooms are the same with only really color variations.. as far as zoa's go there should be an ID or database on here for all sort of then with technical names and common names and stuff like that.
 
pulse

pulse

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Originally Posted by steve24
http:///forum/post/2726536
need more info on your lights first

Any input abouT these lights:
Tank size is 29" deep.
Lights are:
2 x 36" T5 Dual
Fluorescent: 96 watt, 10,000K
Actinic: 96 watt 420nm
 
jubbin2001

jubbin2001

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I started my 29g reef around april, and asked my LFS what I should get.
I started with a few donated mushrooms, but now I have moved up quite a bit.
Zooanthids are pretty hearty from my experience, I started with a colony of about 75 or so polyps of Radioactive Dragon Eyes, and am starting to find little ones here and there. I have 2 colonies of frags now, with about 4 heads each. I also got some bam bams about a month ago, and they are spreading onto all the surrounding rockwork.
Bams:

Radioactive Dragon Eyes (the brown ones are camithoas that came on the rockwork with the zoos):

Green Star Polyps are neat to. Mine have grown really well since I introduced them. This just happens to be an old picture. You can't even see the purple mat anymore, they look like grass blowing in the wind...really cool.

Maybe a Kenya tree? I love the look of it really.

perhaps a small Xenia frag?

I apologize for some of the image quality, they are older pictures, and not the best. Just thought that I would throw them in as a visual reference.
I dunno just a few suggestions. I have other corals, but from what I have seen these seem to require a little less care than some of the others. Just my opinion.
 
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