What Corals For Me

[black molly3]

i have a river reef interpet 50. 2 t5 18 watt lights and blue leds. i was wondering what corals could i have because i am having a nano reef. what are tourch corals like are they easy to keep.
thanks

 

[ben1987]

You will probaby only be able to keep softies under 36W of light.
Torch corals are LPS corals and need a bit more light than softies, one may possobly be ok. But mine seemed to expand and look afr happier when i wne t for stronger lighting.

 

[black molly3]

could anyone give me a short list of the corals i could have in there please. also would polyps be ok in there

 

[shibby]

i found the ligfhting on the interpet tanks really good actually i was spectical at first but have had trachys, rics, zoanthids, a hammer all triple in size which to me was surprising, i do love those tanks so easy and great coral growth it really does run itself !

 

[Truck]

could anyone give me a short list of the corals i could have in there please. also would polyps be ok in there

most corals have polyps, do you mean zoanthus?

 

[shibby]

i would guess so truck most people call zoas button polyps though i think button polyps are actually a diiferent seperate species or polyps for short

 

[SkiFletch]

Nah, button polyps is really just a common name for blah looking zoanthids

Anyway, for a nano tank like that you could look at zoas, palythoa, xenia, mushrooms, ricordea, leather corals (not yellows though), devils fingers, basically any softy. You could TRY a frogspawn or hammer coral as they are more forgiving than torches and have a similar appearance