Good corals for PC's

Discussion in 'Coral' started by jhawkor, Aug 29, 2009.

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  1. jhawkor

    jhawkor Millepora

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    Could you guys list some good corals that would grow under 4x65 watt PC's in a 75 gallon tank?
     
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  3. jakeh24

    jakeh24 Pajama Cardinal

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    mushrooms, zoas, leathers, xenia, kenya tree, maybe an lps like frogspawn.
    basically every softie, and a couple lps up high
     
  4. LCP136

    LCP136 Sailfin Tang

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    In my 90 I had a 4x65 watt PC fixture that grew all leathers, polyps, zoas. Generally softies will work. You can try some LPS, especially higher up. I had some LPS that lived, but Im not sure if they would've sustained had I not switched to t5s
     
  5. oceanparadise1

    oceanparadise1 Fire Squid

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    torches and the such should be fine as they arent really high light demanding corals, i would think, with the right placement you could keep every thing but sps, you could probably even keep some caps high up.
     
  6. LoJack

    LoJack Sea Dragon

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    A garden of bright zoas!
     
  7. jhawkor

    jhawkor Millepora

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    Caps? Are you talking about monti caps?
     
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  9. lunatik_69

    lunatik_69 Giant Squid

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    This was my 45g tall and all I had for lighting was a dual 65w PC retro fit light system. You can double click the pics to get a better close up. As you can see I even had a LTA in there, in fact, she's still with me today.

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