Soft corals and T5 lighting

[weld1jac]

I have T5 lighting (4 bulbs total) above my 55 gallon. I have zoanthids and mushrooms (relatively small colonies) that appear to be thriving/multiplying. Just wondering if anyone out there might be able to recommend other types of soft corals that would work with my current lighting setup. I do have live rock and newly acquired corals could be placed up higher toward the light if needed. Any suggestions would be appreciated. Thanks!

 

[jbittner]

I have the same setup. I have a yellow leather, 2 umbrellas, xenia, green nepthia, neon green toadstool, ricordia, rhodactis mushrooms, sinularia and various zoa. So I guess you could keep about anything. I also Have SPS on top of the rocks and clams in the sand

 

[weld1jac]

That's encouraging that you have such a wide variety of corals! Gives me hope that I might be able to add a few other specimens to my tank. Thank you for the reply!

 

[David Grigor]

As far as softies go, being only 4 bulbs definately helps. While I was using t5s overdriven on icecap for a little over a year, as far as softies go soft corals did really well only exception was some zoanthids didn't grow well ( and I don't keep mushrooms so that didn't matter ). Things like green mumps, finger leathers, toadstools, green nephia, yellow elegan sacro, all did really well. Some even better than when under VHOs. But in the end, it's the LPS that made be switch back to VHOs for the show tank.