Reading conflicting things on stylophora and seriatopora placement

[GroktheCube]

I recently picked up one of each from LADD, and I've been reading conflicting information about how much light and flow they like. At the moment I have the bird's nest in a relatively low flow location, and the stylo in an area getting more flow, just based on what I'd assume they'd like from looking at skeleton shape/structure. Both are on or near the bottom for now while they adapt to my lighting.

Eventually I'd like to get them off the sand, but I'm a bit uncertain as to where they will be happy. The final location I have in mind for the BN is ~16" below the surface, receiving direct light from a 4x54w ATI sunpower and two buildmyled.com 75 watt LED strips, in moderate and varying flow. Would these conditions be OK?

I've read even more conflicting information on the stylo, some suggesting it is a lower light/flow coral, while others suggest that it prefers a location with lots of water movement, and lots of light. There are a few different places I have in mind higher in the rockwork with varying light and flow varying from extremely intense but intermittent water movement (less than a foot in front of a 6105 operating as a wavemaker) less than a foot from the surface right under the narrow optics LEDs, to having relatively little flow and being almost a foot and a half from the surface.

In short:
How much light and flow do these corals generally desire? I'm not sure where to put them after they're acclimated to my tank.

 

[Constrictor6090]

The styloporas I have noticed like a lot of random flow. They seem to get more p.e. and prefer medium light. The seriatoporas seem to like any variety of flow, they will just spread the most under low flow. If you give it high flow then the branches will grow very close together. I'd place the seriatopora under medium flow and low light

 

[jerpa]

My ORA purple stylo loves flow(about 8" from a wide flow 6105) and is in medium light(~250 PAR).

 

[LoJack]

I read an article on stylophora that states it loves the high flow. The article stated that corals with the thick thick skeletons like the stylo has, has them due to the flow they are harvested from. Chaotic random flow according to the article.

I won't comment on the birdsnest, because even though I've read a ton on them ... they don't do well in my tank, therefore I'm not the guy to give advice.

My electric pink stylo is kept 12" below the surface of the water under an ATI 8x54 Sunpower. Its also about 14-16" away from an MP40 at about 50% and its doing very well. Great color, great polyp extension all the time.