I currently am running a coralife 130w lighting fixture with two 50/50 bulbs.....i do not currently have any corals and my 30gal tank is only about a month old..... as i get more and more addicted to my soon to be reef and aquarium hobby i am very close to getting a halide setup.......what will i be able to have with the 130w as far as corals? i may end up getting a 75gal tank and wait to get the halides for that
Lighting Question
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slicksammy
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You can keep softies and zoo's, maybe a few types of LPS's just be careful and research the coral before you buy.
papagimp
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Here is what I've succesfully kept under similar lighting and tank size:
Euphyllia (multiple specimens of frogspawns, hammers, torches)
Candy Canes or Trumpet corals
Shrooms of all sorts, including larger rhoadactis
Zoo's of all sorts, Protopalys, palys, ect. ect.
Various leathers, mainly Kenya Tree's and similar.
Pom Pom xenia's
and the list keeps gonig on and on.
There are going to be plenty you can keep, just not anything that is severly light intensive. And certain corals, such as the euphyllia family may need higher placment in the tank to recieve enough lighting.
You can also keep a number of Non-photosythetic corals with that lighting since it's low enough not to really burn em back, and they will not utilize the light for a food source (or at least they lack the zooanthellae to utlize the light) But these will require multiple daily feedings for the most part and not really a beginers coral, but if you feel up to it, never hurts to try.
Love the quote there by the way, I catch myself doing the same thing every time I watch that movie.
Euphyllia (multiple specimens of frogspawns, hammers, torches)
Candy Canes or Trumpet corals
Shrooms of all sorts, including larger rhoadactis
Zoo's of all sorts, Protopalys, palys, ect. ect.
Various leathers, mainly Kenya Tree's and similar.
Pom Pom xenia's
and the list keeps gonig on and on.
There are going to be plenty you can keep, just not anything that is severly light intensive. And certain corals, such as the euphyllia family may need higher placment in the tank to recieve enough lighting.
You can also keep a number of Non-photosythetic corals with that lighting since it's low enough not to really burn em back, and they will not utilize the light for a food source (or at least they lack the zooanthellae to utlize the light) But these will require multiple daily feedings for the most part and not really a beginers coral, but if you feel up to it, never hurts to try.
Love the quote there by the way, I catch myself doing the same thing every time I watch that movie.
Currently I run a Coralife Aqua Light Lunar 2x65 Watt with 2 blue led moon lights over a 36 gallon bow front tank . One bulb is a Compact dual atinic and the other is a 10k . Everything is set on timers so the Atinics kick on in the morning for a couple hours then the 10k kicks on as well .. In the evening the 10k kicks off and the atinic continues to run for a couple hours . That way it simulates dusk and dawn so to speak . When they kick off in the evening the LED moon lights come on so I can continue to enjoy the tank at night .
I have an elaborate rock work built in the tank to create shelves to bring things closer to the lighting and allows me to place other things further down in the tank that don't require as much .
Here is my stock list :
Zoanthids / several differant colors
Mushrooms 3 colors
Ricordia Mushrooms
Xenia
Waving Hand
Frog Spawn / Porky Spawn a club members morph
Star Polyps / several colors
Tubestrea or Sun Corals
Kenya Tree
Green Bubble Tip Anemone ( very happy in my tank even though everyone will tell you they need lots of light
)
Live stock :
2 Percula Clown fish
1 Royal Gramma
1 Clown Goby
1 Red Firefish
1 Purple Fire Fish
1 Pepermint Shrimp
1 Feather Duster Worm
Here is a link to some of my tank shots
http://corareef.org/forum/viewtopic.php?t=1624
I have an elaborate rock work built in the tank to create shelves to bring things closer to the lighting and allows me to place other things further down in the tank that don't require as much .
Here is my stock list :
Zoanthids / several differant colors
Mushrooms 3 colors
Ricordia Mushrooms
Xenia
Waving Hand
Frog Spawn / Porky Spawn a club members morph
Star Polyps / several colors
Tubestrea or Sun Corals
Kenya Tree
Green Bubble Tip Anemone ( very happy in my tank even though everyone will tell you they need lots of light
) Live stock :
2 Percula Clown fish
1 Royal Gramma
1 Clown Goby
1 Red Firefish
1 Purple Fire Fish
1 Pepermint Shrimp
1 Feather Duster Worm
Here is a link to some of my tank shots
http://corareef.org/forum/viewtopic.php?t=1624
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