help with mushrooms

[socalracer]

don't have very strong lighting (flourescents, with 2 "saltwater" bulbs from petsmart) but i want to add some color so i've read mushrooms will pretty much grow wherever and i saw 2 i liked anyone have expereince with green and orange ricordea's? also on this site it said they will grow and split easily, just wondering if i have to worry about them becoming a nuescence? by the way tank is a 100g

 

[mopar9012]

are you talking about the bulbs that you just slide into place of the ones that come with the tank? Im pretty sure you cant keep corals with those lights. How many watts does it have?

 

[socalracer]

now my light fixture is from walmart and the bulbs i am getting are 40w marine glo and power glo that they sell at petsmart and lfs, on the box it says for salt and for corals i know that this is just a claim and i don't want to kill anything but i was told on this forum that mushrooms are easy to grow and that they don't need great lighting

 

[mikeyjer]

Originally Posted by socalracer
now my light fixture is from walmart and the bulbs i am getting are 40w marine glo and power glo that they sell at petsmart and lfs, on the box it says for salt and for corals i know that this is just a claim and i don't want to kill anything but i was told on this forum that mushrooms are easy to grow and that they don't need great lighting
They don't need great lighting to grow, but ricordias needs better lighting then NO (Normal Output) lighting. Should get PC at least or go with T-5's which is relatively inexpensive and it allows you to keep more then just mushrooms. :happyfish

 

[reefdude37]

Originally Posted by Mikeyjer
They don't need great lighting to grow, but ricordias needs better lighting then NO (Normal Output) lighting. Should get PC at least or go with T-5's which is relatively inexpensive and it allows you to keep more then just mushrooms. :happyfish
I agree

 

[deepsixer]

so what all can you keep with pcs because I want to get some cool things too?

 

[mikeyjer]

Originally Posted by deepsixer
so what all can you keep with pcs because I want to get some cool things too?
Stuffs like leathers, xenia, frogspawn, zoanthids, etc. :happyfish

 

[socalracer]

i know that i can get better with better lighting but is their anything even a non-photosynthetic coral i could get with this set up??????