Originally Posted by WangoTango
well what type of coral are you talking about? my first reef (29g) had 40w of standard flourescent lighting and i had some leathers, shrooms, and star polyps. they all did fine for the two years that tank was going, and they're all in my 55 now. most hard corals would not last more than a month or so without at least bleaching i would imagine. remember that most corals are photosynthetic and need good lighting to survive.
-Justin
Not so much hard corals. I am more interested in leathers, shrooms, anenomes, and maybe clams.
I have 2 15W florescent strips in an 80G. I do not want to make the jump to a higher end system, largely because of the monthly electric bill. If I could get a couple of years out of the corals, I would be okay with it.