Cleaning Crew????

[logan15]

I have a 40 gallon long what would be a good cleaning crew for my tank?What kind of lights would i need for inverts,would a 40 watt power glo work?

 

[barracuda]

I think we discussed it in your prev posts... i don't remeber for sure. Anyway 1 single Power Glo bulb won't be enough for keeping corals. I used hagen bulbs before, so i was experementing with them. The best Hagen bulb is Life Glo. This bulb has full spectrum 6700K (day light) with built-in reflector. Your lights should be upgrated. You will need to add this kind of lamp to keep at least polyps or leather corals. I had 2 life glo, 2 marine glo and 1 power glo over my prev 110 gal and had success with keeping an thriving of leather, polyps and LPS corals (Frogspawn, Open brain).
My suggest for clean up crew will be: blue legged or red scarlet hermit crabs, Astrea or Turbo snails, Cleaner shrims, possibly brittle star(s). All this animals compatible for REEF environment or FOWLR without invert eating fish like Triggers.
Again, one single 18000K Power Glo 40W won't be enough for corals.

 

[salty rick]

Up until I upgraded my lights somewhat, I was running four 36" - 30 watt Coralife NO flourecent bulbs on my 55. I was only able to keep mushrooms, leathers and polyps. I have a Colt that did well under that light. I know have three 48" - 40 watt NO Coralife and one 36" - 30 watt NO flourect light bulbs. With this light you have to be very selective with ccorals and do your research. I made a few mistakes and payed for it. Like buying a Gonaporia and a Bubble Tim Anemonie. If you go to my website link you can see that you can have a variety of corals without the MH and PC's. I haven't gone to the MH and PC's because of the cost involved. If I can convince my wife to let me have a bigger tank I will convert then.
So, as Barracuda said, you can't grow corals with one light.