corals to lighting (light shown)

heres my lighting. 2 (or 1 not sure if you count the actual bulbs or just the fixture)24w 10000k coralife white bulbs and 2 actinic 24w bulbs. or atleast thats what the bulbs say. its an 8 gal bio cube. what are the capabilities as far as corals go?

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You should be fine with most soft and lps corals and you could probably do some less light demanding sps like montipora or pocillipora type corals.

 

Quite a few acually,most softies do well under pc lighting,many lps and a some sps can also be keep under lower lighting along with a variety of non-photosynthetic corals.Zoas,palys,mushrooms,most leathers,anthelia,gsp,xenia to name a few"easy softies".I would be cautious on corals that demand prestine water to thive,in that small of a tank parameters tend to swing more so than opposed to a larger tank with much more water volume.

 

I think you could keep anything under the lights in the proper location. Some of the high light requiring SPS amy lose some color but they would thrive none the less.

 

I agree with all the above. One point worth remembering, you must stay on top of your bulb changes, no longer than 5 months. At 5 months, change out the actinic (or daylights) wait 2 weeks and change out the opposite.

 

crap six months! time to get some new bulbs haha i was looking into it anyways though....thanks everyone

 

24watt pc bulbs in an 8g! Mine came with two 18w bulbs. I keep Zoas, Shrooms, LPS, and some SPS-anacropora with out problems.

 

hmmm. i got the tank for free from someone who had a crazy reef tank. guess thats why she was able to do all that Lucky me ;D