is this enough light to keep soft corals

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CF Deluxe Lunar Series by Corallife 36"
65w actnic
10k daylight 65w
2, 3/4 watt Lunar Blue moon
with cooling fan

the tank depth is 24"

 

[Caleb Kruse]

I think it is, start out with xenia, or GSPs. They are very hardy.

 

[sir_dudeguy]

IMO it wont be that great, especially since your tank is 24 inches tall. Thats a long ways for PC's to penetrate, and they're already bad at that. IMO they're not really that great over 12-14 inches. They're OK for softies on anything past that, but 24 is pretty high...if you were to keep them at least midway up and higher they'd probably do fine tho. But thats really not a whole lot of light.

How long is this tank?

 

[dendro982]

Speaking from personal experience (90g 24" deep tank, 2x55W PC light), in the upper half of the tank you can keep:
white xenia, anthelia, GSP, BSP, yellow polyps, bright red mushrooms, hairy mushrooms, Kenya tree (capnella), branching hammers and frogspawn, candycane (neon-green tolerates lower light, but closer to the top others also should be OK), light-green scolymia, blue algae ochtodes.
Lower - Capnella will live, but not grow, like mad; sun coral (tubastrea, will need a lot of feeding and may pollute water), other non-photosynthetic corals (require good feeding and the tank will need a good filtration), hitchhikers - feather dusters, sponges, turnicates, polychaetes.
Doable...

 

[sir_dudeguy]

Agreed. If you want to do some of those non photosynthetic corals in the lower areas, they might do better than other softies would.

 

[jbittner]

PC have little effective PAR after 12". SO you can keep most soft corals in the top half of your aquarium. I would suggest staying away for the highly colored ones though (s elegans, yumas ect)

 

[new2scene]

great thanks for the info. the tank is 36"