What corals do I add?
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One of the hardiest corals are mushroom anemone's. Although unless that bulb is a metal hailed bulb i think that your going to have trouble keeping any corals. What's your tank size? Corals, even the toughest, need at least 4 watts per gallon and some of the hard to keep varieties need in excess of ten. Hope this helps.
Peace
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kappadoku
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Im going to call BS on this one bud.
Example- 12 gallon eclipse, 18# LR, 3" LS,
50 watt heater. Original PC light fixture, with a 50% 21000K and 50% 8100K bulb.
Thats 13 watts of 50-50 light, and all my corals are great. Button polyps (easy) sun polyps (non-photosynthetic) Blue ricordia mushrooms (Beautiful, but easy) are fine.
BUT, my pulsing xenia is also thriving, has even split colonies. My purple gorgonia is the latest addition, at 4 weeks, and has grown 1.5 inches taller and the polyps have doubled to tripled in number.
WHAT IM TRYING TO SAY IS 4 WATTS PER GALLON IS NOT RIGHT FOR EVERY TANK!
Example- 12 gallon eclipse, 18# LR, 3" LS,
50 watt heater. Original PC light fixture, with a 50% 21000K and 50% 8100K bulb.
Thats 13 watts of 50-50 light, and all my corals are great. Button polyps (easy) sun polyps (non-photosynthetic) Blue ricordia mushrooms (Beautiful, but easy) are fine.
BUT, my pulsing xenia is also thriving, has even split colonies. My purple gorgonia is the latest addition, at 4 weeks, and has grown 1.5 inches taller and the polyps have doubled to tripled in number.
WHAT IM TRYING TO SAY IS 4 WATTS PER GALLON IS NOT RIGHT FOR EVERY TANK!
jess
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I have a 90g tank. With around 110lbs of live rock. I its 20 inchs deep. It has been running for around a year and a half. As for lighting, I only have 1 hood, with 2 bulbs in it. The white one is 40W and the Blue one is also 40W. I have only keep fish before. So I want very easy and the hardyest corals.
[ May 07, 2001: Message edited by: Jess ]
[ May 07, 2001: Message edited by: Jess ]