troy-angela
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can any one recomend soft or leather corals for a stock 29 gallon bio cube
soft and leather corals
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powerhousepratt
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try a finger leather
sir_dudeguy
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What are the lights on those tanks? I know pc's, but i'm just not sure how much.
But pretty much any softy should be ok with the few exceptions...like ones that are more difficult and whatnot. Leathers...same thing. There's a few that like higher light, such as the fiji yellows, but stuff like toadstools...those should be fine in my experience.
But pretty much any softy should be ok with the few exceptions...like ones that are more difficult and whatnot. Leathers...same thing. There's a few that like higher light, such as the fiji yellows, but stuff like toadstools...those should be fine in my experience.
troy-angela
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29 gallon bio cube has 2 36 watt pc's 1 10,00 k ,1 actenic
troy-angela
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my mushrooms seem to do better in the back under the actenic light i was woundering if changing the 10,000 k to a 50/50 would be a good idea
sir_dudeguy
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No, dont change that 10K to a 50/50. Then you'd be getting even less light than you got now (which really isnt a whole lot, but good for pretty much any softies).
Where do you have the shrooms placed? Are they up high or down low? In my experience, they do best near the bottom of the tank where there's less light, or just shaded under some rock or other large coral so the full blast of the light is being blocked from them. But i would not change a full 10K bulb to 50/50 just to help a few shrooms grow...
But like i said, you should be able to grow a lot of soft corals...xenia, zoas, shrooms, green stars, um...wow i've been gone for 2 weeks and i cant think of any more softies off the top of my head now!
But ya...softies would do fine in that IMO.
Where do you have the shrooms placed? Are they up high or down low? In my experience, they do best near the bottom of the tank where there's less light, or just shaded under some rock or other large coral so the full blast of the light is being blocked from them. But i would not change a full 10K bulb to 50/50 just to help a few shrooms grow...
But like i said, you should be able to grow a lot of soft corals...xenia, zoas, shrooms, green stars, um...wow i've been gone for 2 weeks and i cant think of any more softies off the top of my head now!
But ya...softies would do fine in that IMO.I would reccomend you choose your species well in a smaller tank, otherwise run lots of carbon because various leathers have differing toxins and some dont get allong.
iN my experience i have tried several combinations with varying luck, so i will give u a list of what i have found does and doesnt get allong.
Here are some bad combinations i hav noticed
Devils hand & sinularia aggravate Lemnalia and (i still havnt properly identified my green finger but it is sparsley polyped, and thin branched.) as well as colt coral.
The current combinations i have been growing for the last 2 years in a 48 gallon are...
Sarcrophyton, (again the green leather), Cabbage, colt, lemnalia, and Cladiella.
Devils hand and dura get allong with sarcrophyton
Most long branched finger leathers get allong just fine.
The more toxic softies are sarcs, devils hand, duras, and cabbages.
I hope this helps. Trial and error is really the only way to tell for sure.
I would run carbon in your filter most of the time, if not atleast for a week once a month.
iN my experience i have tried several combinations with varying luck, so i will give u a list of what i have found does and doesnt get allong.
Here are some bad combinations i hav noticed
Devils hand & sinularia aggravate Lemnalia and (i still havnt properly identified my green finger but it is sparsley polyped, and thin branched.) as well as colt coral.
The current combinations i have been growing for the last 2 years in a 48 gallon are...
Sarcrophyton, (again the green leather), Cabbage, colt, lemnalia, and Cladiella.
Devils hand and dura get allong with sarcrophyton
Most long branched finger leathers get allong just fine.
The more toxic softies are sarcs, devils hand, duras, and cabbages.
I hope this helps. Trial and error is really the only way to tell for sure.
I would run carbon in your filter most of the time, if not atleast for a week once a month.
sir_dudeguy
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lol hm....i've got 3 different verieties of toadstools (one REALLY long polyped one, one gold/brown one and one bright green), a large fiji yellow leather, devels hand, and i know there's one more that i'm missing. I got colts in there as well. I've even mixed in some lps like hammers and torches and i've yet to see a thing happen between any of them. The most i can say is that my fiji yellow does NOT like green stars or red mushrooms. It closed up on the side that is near them when it is near them.
troy-angela
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I have my mushrooms about half way up aginst the back wall to keep them out of the water flow there is a lot of flow from the pump and they seem to shrink up in the when they get much water flow it is hard to adjust the nozzel to lower the current in the front of the tank i need to build the live rock up more to try to break up the current right now i only have about 25 lbs of live rock i use a bag of carbon in my filter and the water quality seems to stay very good i have been keeping fish for a while but i just recently started getting in to corals i also use a protein skimmer
in my 30 gal,i have diffrent mushrooms,buttons,matts ,polyps and they do well. i have 130 watt (65 actinic and 65 10000k white). if your watt is 3-4 per gall,i suppose they will do well. leathers and mushrooms do not do well together,because they have some toxic muccos in mushrooms that leathers do not like. i even had some torch,hammers mixed with my mushrooms and they did not bother them, my 2cents. good luck. jakleen
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