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youngone517 http:///t/397073/need-help-with-corals#post_3538124
So I have been maintaining this tank for about 2 years now and it is very steady I really want to start having some corals in the tank like the easy care leveled once I did some research on what I will need for it and I couldn't seem to finds enough information that would help me with my tank. It is a 75 gallon tank I have about 20 pounds of sand and 20-40 pounds of live rock, ~~Aqueon Circulation Aquarium Pumps as my power head, ~~Marineland LED Single Bright Aquarium Lighting System lighting, ~~Instant Ocean SeaClone Protein Skimmer, and a ~~Marineland Emperor Filter Systems for my filter if you could give me any information on if I can have corals or the stuff I will need to get before I can keep corals in my tank. Thank you.
Hi, welcome to the site!
Lighting is the key to deciding what type of corals you can keep...from fish lights to LEDs.
Soft easy to care for corals, such as mushrooms, and Kenya tree don't need strong lights...T5HO lighting makes the fish color, and corals look better then fish lights. Then there are non-photosynthetic corals, they don't need any light at all, but do require lots of water flow and food...which means lots of water changes. Then you have the LPS and SPS corals that require the strongest (expensive) lighting.
This book is worth it's weight in gold...it tells you the corals needs, and where to place it in the tank...
This is an example page...click on the picture to make it enlarge
By the way...the awesome coral in the book's picture is a very low light coral... some really pretty colors are found in non-photosynthetic coral.
Here is an example, of such a tank:
