candy coral or trumpet

[Ronny#66]

Was reading thread on lighting in 29 gal I have 130 watt 2 65 power compact the fella said he keeps his in shade i have mine 9 " from top of hood . the light is on suports about 5" above glass top.Igot to tell ya it looks more open when moon light is on. Should i move it ?

[sir_dudeguy]

Maybe move it down... I've never had one though so i cant tell you how they react to light.

But also, just a friendly suggestion... Try using more punctuation (like periods, commas...whatever) in your posts. Its very difficult to read a run on sentence like the one above. So please, if you ask us to help you out, return the favor and help us out as well by making it a little easier to read I'm not bashing on you, just tryin to help you out

[seapug]

those guys can take quite strong light but the colors are better when they are a bit shaded.

[papagimp]

Last candy cane colony I had, I was forced to split the colony in half and use the two halves to figure out where placement would be best for him in my tank, this took me a couple months and the poor fella was looking so tattered by the time I actually found "his spot" but once he was in the right lighting and flow, he grew very quick and looked awesome. Was in a 55g, under 4 x 54w T5's, located about halfway down the tank, not shaded, but not full blasted with light either. Flow is what I had the hardest time with, if it wasn't just right, he did horrible.

[taillonjohn]

Papagimp: what kinda flow does it like please?

[hmello@bermexin]

I had one tht was doing very well, opening up spreading his feeders and eating. I had to do some rescaping and put him in an area of pretty fast flow. Within a day tissue recession was occuring. I go out the Borneman Corals book and found out they did not like that kind of flow so I moved him to a place where there is just some incidental flow through the rocks. He has recovered and is back to his old self. Con't let any flow hit him directly. Just put him where some water just happens to be moving after bouncing off a couple of walls of some of the rockwork

[drummereef]

Med/low light and med/low flow is best, imo. Definitely not direct flow.

Here's mine.

[papagimp]

I agree with drummer here, do not blast it with anykind of laminar flow, get a nice semi-turbulent flow, low - med. flow.

I would recommend starting it off in a lower flow area and work up from there until you get optimal results, and keep in mind, target feeding may help as well with these fellas. One of the few LPS I've owned that really seemed to prefer being target fed often.