tabling coral

[iwilson1]

Hi all,

Just hoping I can get a little advice the best placement for a new acquisition. I was fortunate enough to be given a frag of some very nice tabling coral from a friend. He called it Atlanti's Ultimate Deepwater Table Coral. He said he got it from that place, and it's a very nice green with purple tips. He fragged a bit off for me and said I should give it a try.

Anway, it's going in a 75g standard aquarium, lots of live rock, so I can pretty much place it wherever. Tank is lit by 2x150w 14K Phoenix HQI's, with 2x96w PC actinics. Photoperiod is HQI's on 9 hours, actinics on 12.

I have a large number of other sps corals, so all else (chemistry wise) being up to par, where would be the best location for this coral, relative to light and water flow?

Thanks in advance for your thoughts.

 

[samsfishnchips]

I would keep it in plenty of flow and high light,

I think that's the down fall of table type of corals, mainly the flow, very tough structure to keep it flush in total from base to inner branches to tips, good luck

sam

 

[thebicyclecafe]

Well if it's deepwater then it really doesn't need high flow or light... sometimes just looking at the main colony of coral you can easily tell. If the branches are thin and delicate, it's a good indication that the coral came from an area that did not have high flow (hence the "deepwater" ID). If it is indeed from a deepwater environment then you definitely don't want to over illuminate it or give it too much flow.

 

[iwilson1]

thanks. the deepwater part of the name did make me think "lower light", but you never know. The piece I have (only about 2") doesn't look overly delicate, but I looked online at the pics and the larger coral does look like it gets some fantastic branching structure.

 

[samsfishnchips]

lol, miss the deepwater part

but if it looks like this when it growths up,
"The Ultimate Deep Water Table"

I would give it plenty of flow and some nice light, after all you should find that particular spot that it will be happy, that spot is different for every tank as they are all different, good luck,

sam

 

[Znut Reefer]

I also, just got a frag of this table from Atlantis last week. I started my frag off on the bottom, and will work it up midways in the tank. But I'm using 400 MH. It seems to be doing well on the bottom for now.

 

[iwilson1]

yeah, that's it I believe. Sure is a nice looking coral all growed up. I'll probably play with the placement a bit to find a good spot. I've got some good high-flow areas to put it, just wanted to be sure I wasn't going to overdo, or underdo, the lighting.