3g pico help

[DylanE]

im planning a 3g tank, with some shrooms and zoas most likely. my question is what kind of lighting will i need to just keep those?

 

[circusordie16]

some people have done it with 9 watts but id recommend 18. with that youll easily be able to keep shrooms and zoas and youll be able to expand to lps and maybe some sps like montis if you want to later. and im willing to bet youll want to later haha.

 

[DylanE]

haha, alright sounds like 18 then

 

[sir_dudeguy]

I have 3x9w pc's on my 3g pico and i'm growing a lot more than just shrooms and zoas. I've got a bunch of mushrooms, a couple different zoa colonies, but i've also got kenya tree, green star polyps, um...3 or 4 different digitata corals, i think one of them the guy told me was an elkhorn coral? cant remember. Its growing tho and its sps lol. Oh, and i've got a small hammer coral in there as well, everything doing great so far

 

[Nanomaniac]

For Mushrooms, Zoas, and other lower light corals a 18watt PC fixture would work very well. I would personally go with the 18w Current USA fixture.