REALLY warm water corals?

[breineach1]

Hello all,
I have a 15Tall with 2x40W Dual Daylight/Dual Actinic PCs, Remora skimmer + 1 powerhead. Water paramaters:
SG-1.021
Ammonia, nitrite,nitrate- 0
PH-8.3
Alk-2.9
KA-500
Problem is, no chiller... temp is regularly 82-84 degrees (with 2 fans). The fish (2 damsels) and cleanup crew seem happy as long as it doesn't go over 84- then the ice bags go in! Are there any corals that will tolerate those high temps with my lighting? I'd love to turn this FOWLR into a reef tank...

Thanks!

 

[robsw]

some zoos will tolerate that but you hould really be around 79-80. also if you want coral you will want to raise your 1.021 to around 1.024 or 1.025. do this slowly tho. after you get this worked out you should try a small frag of zoos and see how they do. for them just temp acclimate for a long time. hope evrything works out.

 

[matt819]

My xenia's lived through temps of almost 90 degrees one time, while others died, so I'd say they could tolerate it.

 

[lbaskball]

Ive kept, mushrooms, frogspawns, zoos, sun corals, plates, brains in tempertures around 82 to even 84..but mainly 82 and they were all fine. Some people even keep their tanks around 84. They should be fine, just make sure during summer your tank doesnt reach 85 or 86 mark because I think that is pretty hot and it might stress the corals. Why dont you save up 300bucks and buy the nano arctica chiller.I saw it at the store, its verrryyyy quiet and I believe its a great chiller.

 

[breineach1]

Thanks a bunch for the input! By the time I get my SG up winter should be here-making temps perfect. Then maybe when summer rolls around we can afford the chiller.

 

[hemicj]

alot of corals will tolerate up to about 84 deg but this temp also allows for more parasites and disease to thrive