Lighting Requirements - Liveaquaria.com

[badfish]

Im just researching corals on liveaquaria, and was wondering how many watts per gallon you need for low, medium, and High. For example, does low mean at least 2 watts per gallon? I have 3 watts per gallon for now and have to stick to lower light corals. Any ideas of what else i can get? right now i got yellow polyps, star polyps, and zoos. I was thinking some shrooms.

TIA

- Jeff

 

[saltcreep1025]

Ricordea are beautiful low light corals. Also leathers and toadstools are kinda neat, but not exactly colorful.

 

[ZoozFishMaster]

xenia is low light...give that a try

 

[badfish]

when you say low light, i have 2.6 watts per gallon, is this sufficient for the above mentioned corals? Right now i have my zoos, yellow polyps and star polyps on the top of my rockwork which is around 7 inches from water line, and 11 inches from lights.