recomend corals of theses colors for my system

[agreeive?fish]

Ok this question is for a standard 30g tank 60g system capacity with a clot coral(2)( bushy like tree like thats tannish in color) that is aprox 13" tall and split once and that split is aprox 10" tall and a couple of mushrooms

i want a blue coral

i want a red coral

i want a yellow coral

i want a white coral

lighting is 110w pc 10k and 110w pc actnic (or 120w each dependingon bulb mfg)

please recomend some corals... to fit these color requirments prefere it not to be mushrooms as ill use multiple colors of mushrooms to fill in other colors

the tank has green hair algea (madins hair???)INTENTIONAL introduced i actually like the looks of the "flowing grass" and is also a place for pods to populate for the eventual mandrin


fish are

scissor tail dart fish
purple firefish
1/2 black drawf angel (can move to another tank if it takes to coral munching)
pair of pink skunk clowns

thanks for any recomendations

must be corals that will thrive with my lighting as i am not gonna change lighting as i use the "old reef bulbs" on my 3 fowlr systems

[aulepe]

A few suggestions, I'll limit to low-mod light requirements given your system.

Blue- maybe a nice chalice like dreamsicle or superman
Red- plenty of acans with that coloration
Yellow- a nice colony of zoas would be a good bet
White- perhaps a bubble or torch coral

It'll be interesting to see some other recs.

Good Luck!

[agreeive?fish]

thanks for the reply

[Mariner]

An LFS in our area carries a very blue gorgonian that appears to be pretty hardy. Several acropora are quite blue, but your lighting may not be bright enough to keep good color for acro's.
I'd agree that you should be able to find red acan's pretty easily, but they're not cheap.
The most stunning yellow coral IMO is the sun coral, but you have to commit to feeding it regularly.
Any bleached coral will be white
Mariner

[agreeive?fish]

thanks for the reply

[Moonstream]

definetly no acropora. IME, they survive under PC bulbs, but they brown out completly even at the very tippy top of the tank. I would say gorgonia are out too, because the nonphotosynthetic ones will quickly die without daily feedings, and the photosynthetic ones like very BRIGHT lighting.

For a blue coral, Chalices are definetly a good bet. Blue cloves are nice too, but they take things over pretty quick and I think do better under brighter lighting. other corals I can think of off the top of my head would be blue zoas or palys.

for a red coral, I would say that LPS are your best bet. there are some zoas that come in vibrant red, as well though. LPS to look into would be red acans, blastos, lobo brains, etc. all these come in PURE red, but you might have to do some searching to find them.

for a yellow coral, Yellow polyps or some sort of zoa or paly would be good. I dont think there are any un-died LPS that come in yellow.

be careful when getting white corals, as a lot of them are just bleached. pearl bubble corals would be a good choice, though they may take on a pink tinge over time. they do need to be fed every week or few days though.

oh, and BTW, any white torch coral you see is gonna be bleached. they just dont come in white.

[agreeive?fish]

thanks for the reply

yes iam aware that there are very very very very few true white corals if any and if you find one its 99.999999999% chance its bleached thats why i dont have a white coral and stilllooking for a TRUE white coral

[thebkramer]

Red coral: Red Chili Cactus...love them
White coral: I use to have a monti that was white with fuzzy polyps that had tints
of pink and green under actinics, gorgeous coral and thrived beautifully. I
am looking for this same coral right now. (was not bleached. Had it for 2yrs)