coral lighting help

[blaze98]

I want to add some easy corals to my 30 gallon FOWLR tank. I was thinking some mushrooms and a few zoa's. I plan on upgrading my single flourescent bulb with a T5 fixture that holds 2 bulbs, one 10 k full spectrum and one 460nm Actinic. It is rated at 24 watts each for a total of 48 watts. My question is will this be enough to support some basic mushrooms and zoa's? My tanks mesurments are 30Lx12Wx18D.

 

[mx mr bean]

with a t-5 u can support plenty more than justr zoas and mushrooms. basically u can have everything but acroporas and clams(possible but i dont reccomend them without metal halides.

 

[blaze98]

thanks for the response, I appreciate the feedback. I just wanted to start out with some easy corals, and make sure this ammount of light would support them, I didn't want to starve the poor guys.

 

[mx mr bean]

lol np.... if u want begginer coral then definitaly get mushrooms and zoas. good luck .

 

[georgev845]

Up the wattage some more say to 65+ incase u ever want to get diffrenet corals you can have enough lighting 48w sounds a bit boarderline