What's a good coral for me?

Reefynewby

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Hey, i'm lookin to stock my tank up with some more corals. Here's my current specks in terms of corals...

-1 neon green w/ pink tips bubble tip anemone (about 5 in across)
-1. bleached but gaining back color sebae anemone (same size)
yes i know those aren't corals, but i felt i should include them.
-1 Brown branching frogspawn w/ white heads. 2 smallish heads, 1 almost finished splitting.
-1 purple brown (kinda ugly) xenia, that doesn't pulse.
-1 brown zoa colony. (i dunno what kind, it's got long stems, brown wavers on end, green under actinic, and then orange or yellow in middle. w/ white light, the green looks brown.)

Well... my lfs has
-a big 6-7" brown elegance for $40.
-green star polyps ($25)
-brown star polyps
-gonis
-bubble coral
-white pulsating xenia
-candy cane/trumpet
-various zoas
-mushrooms
-snake polyps
-torches

most of their stuff is kinda brown, and i'm lookin for a little more color. All suggestions appreciated.

My lighting is 360 watts of pc lights. i leave them on for 14 hours. I also have lunar led lights.
Tank is 18" high. Tips for placement would be nice too.

Thanx
 
can you upgrade your lighting to t5's? if you do you can get a lot more stuff...
 
well... i can't at the moment, i don't have any more money to spare on things like that, especially since that 500 was a big whack outta my cash. I forgot to mention that the lfs has many more corals, i also have 3 other lfs in my area, but they cost more. Is PC really that bad? They are coralife, and only about 3 in. above the tank. I have a canopy and acrylic so MH is out. Please i would like more corals. Thanks
 
I'd say get some mushrooms and candy canes. I generally don't buy anything from my LFS unless it has good color. I'd much rather wait until I find something good than put something "dull" in my tank.
 
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