coral recommondations

[bhfccsr198]

hey all i have this 40 watt light power compact on my tank which is 10 gallons that means 4 watts per gallon and i have a maxijet 1200 and a aqua clear 110 on it as filtration/water moverment qith this info what kinda corals do you think my tank is capable of handleing please respond im really itching to get some corals i has went threw the cycle and all so im good

 

[trigger11]

Congratulations on getting through the cycle phase. It is always fun setting up a new system.
My first inkling would be to say to wait a bit longer before adding any corals. Get a cleanup crew in there and working. Having a 12g is going to require doing more water changes and if it were my tank I would want to have a good idea of how the nitrates are doing before adding any corals.
Having said that, once you get ready to add corals I would say you should be ok with mushrooms, zoos, GSP. Maybe can add some kinds of leathers later on down the road.

 

[farslayer]

Isn't that maxijet a bit much for a 10G tank? PC lighting is sufficient for softies and LPS corals.

 

[rbaldino]

I have 40 watts on my 10 gallon and currently have a small frogspawn, a small kenya tree, a Xenia frag, and some GSPs, zoos and mushrooms.

 

[allterr]

I have 60 w PC on my 10 and I have shrooms, zoos, an orange monti, a candy cane, and some xenia all are doing fine....(I do have the monti. the canes. and the xenias higher up in the tank though with my lights about 3" off the top of the tank...)

 

[bhfccsr198]

so then what kinda clean up crew do you recomend i hate buying snails because the crabs just kill them