What lps can live under a 72watt pc on a 30g?

[FishAreFriends2]

A friend has set up a tank for about 3 months and now he wants to add some corals. So what lps can he keep under a 72watt pc? The tank is a half a moon tank from odyssea. He was thinking about adding some brain corals but I don't know if the 72watts is enough. I'd like to hear if anyone thinks a brain/lobo can live under that light. For the mean time does anyone have some suggestions on what lps corals to keep? He currently has a a candy cane frag, and the other stuff are all zoas and polyps.

 

[Lockhartia]

Bubble corals might be worth considering. Not the flashiest but they can be kept under lower lighting.

Before I upgraded my 20ga to T5's it had a single 50/50 pc Coralife fixture, and I had several hammers and frogspawns that did quite well.

Dendros (Sun Corals) would also be a good choice, just be sure to feed them. They dont' need any light. I've also had good luck with gorgonians under PCs (the photosynthetic kind, the others scare me with all the horror stories I've heard). They'll benefit from feeding as well, even if photosynthetic.

 

[FishAreFriends2]

Ah so bubbles are fine? Thats perfect he wanted some bubble corals as well but I was afraid it wouldn't be enough. Thanks for letting me know.

I mentioned hammers and frogs but I think he was afraid of the length of the sweepers.

 

[Lockhartia]

Keep the flow down and sweepers won't really be an issue. My frogspawns/hammers/torches are very well behaved. I have a maze brain that gets a little more flow than most, and that sucker can throw out a 2" sweeper!

 

[seapug]

bubbles, cynarinas, and scolymias would all do well. They get huge under moderate light and gentle flow conditions

 

[FishAreFriends2]

so a 75watt pc on a 30g is considered moderate lighting?

can anyone post some pics of their
cynarinas
and scolymias?
I have no idea what those are.

So right now bubble corals will be on the list.

 

[FishAreFriends2]

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[MCsaxmaster]

Most corals can do fine under this level of lighting. Perhaps excluding those that are most demanding of light, but even so that is the minority (maybe 1/3 of the species we often keep).

 

[JUICE!]

dendros and rhyzos :-D .....and sun corals

 

[catfisher]

My Hammer and Frog spawn are very well behaved. I keep them well fed and never have sweeper issues...

 

[FishAreFriends2]

Will open brains live under this kind of light btw I am not sure if this is a 75watt, someone told me 75watt does not exist.
So its probably a 65 or maybe higher?

 

[InLimbo87]

Its probably 2 x 36w

 

[FishAreFriends2]

Thanks thats probably it.
So the corals mentioned above they'd do fine under that amount of light right?
And would brains live under these lights?