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Mushrooms and soft coral and leathers are good starter corals. If you look in my gallery and see my tank you`ll see a whole tank of good starter corals. I dont mess with the hard ones that need high lighting. I only have a 3 WPG tank.
Thanks scott I really like zoas I always thought they looked great in tanks. Do you have any zoas or mushrooms?
WOW melosu those are some great corals I applaude you! Are all of those in the same tank and low light corals? Im gonna seriously gonna have to get some.
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Corals and aquarium lighting is a pretty lengthy topic. However, most corals will do just fine with the appropriate amount of CF, VHO r T5 lighting. There are a few corals (most SPS), clams and anemones that do need MH but they are in the minority. For starters, mushrooms, zoas, polyps, leathers and some LPS corals are great options.
if you can find them gorgonians and brainiams(sp) can be very rewarding and are a lot less expensive than comparable sized corals. You may also want to look into some sponges. BTW nice avater pack!!
Some lowlight corals that you could have are orange sun polyps. They are low light and moderate care corals. The only problem is they have to be target fed. Here are mine
What do you target feed them with? I currently target feed some of my inverts (button pollops apparently) with mysis and other shreded solids like that. Do sun corals take that too? I've read they live in caves also so would that mean I should place it under a ledge in the tank or in light is OK given how low WPG I have?