need advice for setting up a reef

[joefromsacto]

I am currently in the process of converting a FOWLR to a reef tank. I will now be using a combo of flourescent and actinic lights, totalling 260 watts. I have a 60 gallon tank, and was wondering with that lighting system what would be good, colorful, and easy to care for corals so that I can ease my way in to reefkeeping without getting in over my head.....any advice on this, and any tips in general will be appreciated. thanks for the help,
Joe

 

[snulma1]

The easiest to start with are things like pulsing xenia, frogspawn, and green star polyps. they usually will grow in anything.

 

[sslak]

Use caution and planning when introducing something like Green Star Polyps. They can quickly grow covering large sections of your rock work, taking up valuable real estate where you might someday want to place other corals.

A fast spreading coral like this should be isolated where it can't grow over rocks that you don't want it to cover.

 

[luke33]

Yea, if i had to do it all over i would have never introduced green star polyps, colt coral or xenia. They grow like weeds, especially the colt coral.