frag sale...help!!!

[jwhitlow1031]

im going to this frag sale on saturday and i wanted to be able to buy something to just kinda get my tank going...not sure what to get and not only that not sure what kinda stuff im going to be able to grow with my light. all my basic parameters are great and my calcium is about 475. i have a 130 watt pc light over a 54 gallon corner tank. the amount of rock i have will allow me to put different corals at different heights in the tank...the picture i have below is broken up into "zones" lol, i would love some suggestions as far as what would be good for me to start with and then where they would be best in my tank...thanks for all the help... : )

 

[Andrew]

Thats not much lighting at all. Corals won't really look or grow much under that low of lighting. I would get some star polyps and zoanthids.

 

[meco65]

Some polyps, or some mushrooms, maybe xenia would be good to start with.

 

[jwhitlow1031]

hmm, yea...i dont really have much of a desire to do any more than soft corals...so yea...what about mushrooms and leathers etc?

 

[SeanySean]

<a href=showthread.php?s=&postid=6532457#post6532457 target=_blank>Originally posted</a> by jwhitlow1031
hmm, yea...i dont really have much of a desire to do any more than soft corals.

Just you wait untill those little butes grow..... :d

 

[jwhitlow1031]

lol, yea...id be happy if they did that good...lol

 

[Pandora]

Stay away from xenia, they require a lot more than 2W/gal. The other suggestions are ok (if "polyps" refered to zoos, that is. all corals technically have polyps).

 

[jwhitlow1031]

so what would be the best polyps to start with then? Zoanthids? where would i put them in the tank?...