What Coral should I get?

[frankthetank]

I'll be adding a coral to my tank here in the next week or so. I'd like some advice on something colorful to get.
46G Bow
Dual Sattelite light system
I have some basic mushrooms and button polyps, one leather coral and one pulsing xenia... but nothing real colorful.
I'd like to add something green or blue or whatever beautiful color. I'll probably buy from this website, if anyone has some suggestions from here. Thanks!!

 

[richarl5]

ricordea mushrooms of any color, green star polyps, maybe some different colored zoos than what you already have...

 

[bluemantr]

Zoanthids! Zoanthids! and Zoanthids!

 

[eaglewonj]

What is the approximate guideline for softies? Just stuff like mushrooms, zoas, etc. Would 130W over a 20T work? 65W dual daylight and 65W dual actnic?
Current USA Satellite Dual 2x65 Watt 24" Power Compact Strip Light W/Lunar Light
This Current USA Power Compact Fixture is a dual strip light which contains 1 Dual Daylight Lamp (6700K & 10,000K), 1 Dual Actinic Lamp (420nm & 460nm) and 1 Lunar Light.

 

[frankthetank]

Originally Posted by eaglewonj
What is the approximate guideline for softies? Just stuff like mushrooms, zoas, etc. Would 130W over a 20T work? 65W dual daylight and 65W dual actnic?
Current USA Satellite Dual 2x65 Watt 24" Power Compact Strip Light W/Lunar Light
This Current USA Power Compact Fixture is a dual strip light which contains 1 Dual Daylight Lamp (6700K & 10,000K), 1 Dual Actinic Lamp (420nm & 460nm) and 1 Lunar Light.
Yea that would work out great. I have a dual sattellite over a 46bow. It's 192 watt dual daylight and dual actinic. All my corals do great. I just need color.

 

[frankthetank]

Originally Posted by Bluemantr
Zoanthids! Zoanthids! and Zoanthids!
Are these what the website calls zoos?
Sometimes I'm not sure what I have...
I have a rock with mushrooms on it, brown with some green coloring on it.
A rock with brown mushrooms with green little fuzzies all over it.
Then I guess I have a rock with two different kinds of zoos on it, one type has a green center to it that really glows when the blues are on. The other type is just plain ol' boring brown.
Then I have a pulsing xenia that is really spreading, and would have been better but one branch just died about 2 months ago for some odd reason. Nothing else even got sick, and water parameters were perfect. ?????
And then I have a yellow leather coral that looks like a bunch of fingers sticking out everywhere.
So besides the yellow leather coral and the xenia, I have a lot of brown. I'm looking for beautiful colors now.
I'll check out the zoos here.

 

[richarl5]

There are some pretty amazing zoo colors out there, you just have to be lucky enough to come across them. Do you have a trustworthy LFS that sells small frags of corals? I have some orange zoos with green centers that really brighten up my tank and I found them at my LFS.

 

[frankthetank]

I have a pretty good LFS fortunately. I'll have to look again at there selection... it changes every couple weeks.

 

[eaglewonj]

Originally Posted by FranktheTank
Yea that would work out great. I have a dual sattellite over a 46bow. It's 192 watt dual daylight and dual actinic. All my corals do great. I just need color.
Excellent, so at least the lighting can stay as is if I ever upgrade.

 

[30-xtra high]

zoos, yellow polyps, colt or kenya tree