Lighting for hard corals

[ssc351]

I was looking into getting some hard corals and was wondering what kind of lighting I need. Rigtht now I have a 175W VHO with an Actinic and daylight bulb. Thanks for the help

 

[adrian]

What kind of hard corals? There are alot of different corals that have a hard skeleton

 

[ssc351]

Here are some of the corals I was interested in (soft and mushrooms included):
- Pineapple Coral (Favites)
- Pagoda Coral (Turbinaria)
- Bubble Coral (Plerogyra)
- Durian Coral (Galaxea)
- Flower Pot (Goniopora)
- Flower Pot - Green Branch (Alveopora)
- Mushroom, Asst. Color
- Mushroom, Feather-Red
- Mushroom, Anemone
- Mushroom, Green
-Torch Coral
- Sun Polyps (Tubastrea)

 

[ssc351]

Please HELP!

 

[finland]

What size tank do you have?

 

[jonthefb]

what size tank do you have?

 

[jonthefb]

wooooahh finland that was friggin weird JINX! ha ha what is there a friggin echo in here?......oh yeah its me!
jon

 

[ssc351]

Sorry I gave up on the post, thought no one would respond. I have a 100 gal with 125 lbs lr and dsb.

 

[finland]

I would add 2- 175w or 2-250w in a 10k to the vho you already have and you should be set for most hard corals. Just make sure to put the lower light softies low in the tank and slowly acclimate them to the much brighter lights by only having the halides on for a few hours at first then slowly increase the photo-period