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10/27/2011, 05:45 PM
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Can any coral be kept with regular Flourescents?
Is there any kind of hardy or low maintenance coral that can be kept by just having a couple 30W flourescents, a basic canopy light? I'm sure the answer is probably no. Right now I have a 65g with just fish, I am interested in coral but I think I really may have to upgrade my lighting severely.
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10/27/2011, 06:02 PM
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if your rockwork is tall, then you can keep some mushrooms . top 1/2 of the tank only though.
....maybe kenya tree too. use 6k or 10k bulbs, no actinic to get the most power/par |
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10/27/2011, 06:07 PM
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i'm not sure what the K rating might be. I looked on the bulb but doesn't say. the light is more of a blueish/white so I guess the K is higher.
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10/27/2011, 06:11 PM
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You can there are some real easy mushrooms zoas gsp that would do good
but dont forget there is a lot of sweet non photosynthetic corals as well
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10/27/2011, 06:21 PM
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What kinds of Zoas? I really like those. I'll look into the non photosynthetics too. Where would you get the non photosynthics too? I'm not sure if I have ever seen any in my local LFS.
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10/27/2011, 06:32 PM
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Thete are lots of zoas just stay away from designer named ones
Here is a link for live aquaria NPS corals i bet you have seen some and didn't know it  http://aquarium-fish.liveaquaria.com...Photosynthetic Divers den http://www.liveaquaria.com/diversden....cfm?c=2733+10
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10/27/2011, 06:47 PM
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Awesome, thanks for the links.
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10/27/2011, 06:54 PM
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Just remember you will have to spot feed nps corals
And there is a non photosynthetic forum on the main page as well
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