Corals in a nano

[smith248]

My dad and I just set up a 29gal bio-cube. We are trying to get an idea of what kinds of corals people have had success with in this and other similar sized nanos. We have made no lighting mods so the 72watts of P/C lighting is all we have. We plan on a fairly low bio load we have a pair of flase percs and down the road we might add one other small fish (six line wrass maybe)

Thanks!

 

[Illuminati]

Any softie or LPS corals you wanted would do great in your tank.

Things like Xenia, Green Star Polyps, Zoa's, Kenya Tree are easy for beginners.

LPS I'd go with Candycanes as fairly easy beginner corals.

 

[All Delight]

Ricordea Flordias are awesome mushrooms to start with, very hardy.

 

[smith248]

cool...
we are not so much worried about which corals are easyer than others... this isn't our first take. We had a 55 gal reef for a number of years but had a week of no power in the middle of winter a few years back and lost it. learned our lesson about back up generation and just resently got back into the hobby starting with the nano tank while we plan out a big take in the 180 to 250 gal range. With our old take we had (2) 250 watt halides and (4) 100watt atinic P/Cs plenty of light for most anything. But with this tank we only have the 72watts of P/C and have little experance with the lack of lighting

We knew going in that the SPS stuff we had before was not going to be an option for this tank, and we assumed that we wouldn't beable to do much more than your basic mushrooms.

Thanks again for the input

 

[dendro982]

I had/have under similar light (18W 50-50 PC in Nano-cube 6g): branching hammers and frogspawn, neon-green candycane, white xenia, hairy mushroom (Rhodactis), white lemnalia, and non-photosynthetic corals (feeding makes necessary massive water changes) - red finger gorgonian (Diodogorgia), sun coral, scleronephtya, purple lemnalia. Not all in the same time.
Not enough light for: bright red mushrooms (if they are at the bottom, while rhodactis is perfectly OK), green star polyps, kenya tree (capnella), anthelia, yellow polyps.
But: corals at the top of the tank, with the very small water layer between them and the light (say, 2"), will have more than enough light. Don't forget about colorful invertebrates, other than corals, like shrimp, stars, or pink-green or yellow cucumbers (beware).

Fish: clowns may attack them (mine did), but crorimises are making the tank look alive and very marine color, mermaid-like.

 

[smith248]

cool so it sounds like there is more light near the top of the tank than we first thought. We currently have two very small very young false percs in the tank. They've only been in the tank for a couple of days. They seem to be liking it okay. They are still exploring a bit but they've seem to have found their home and they spend most of their time face first hovering in the current.