what corals are best for my tank?

Discussion in 'Coral' started by harrison, Apr 22, 2012.

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  1. harrison

    harrison Spanish Shawl Nudibranch

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    im going to start my first marine reef aquarium and i plan on keeping in a 45 gallon, a maroon clown, a dwarf fuzzy, a cockatoo waspfish, and a orange banded stingfish 8). what corals are more hardy and look cool and fill up the tank?
    what types of torch, hammer, montipora, polyps, mushroom, and others

    species name please;D
     
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  3. Jason McKenzie

    Jason McKenzie Super Moderator

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    My first thoughts are with cockatoo waspfish, and a orange banded stingfish (2 very cool fish by the way) will be competing for the same food source and therefore be quite aggressive toward each other. As well your tank size is the bare minimum for both fish. But none of the fish would be coral eaters so any corals that could be supported with the lighting and filtration you chose will work

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    Newreef15 Horrid Stonefish

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    what kind of lighting and filtration are you plaining on haveing on this tank?

    It really depends on what you like and get your hands on
     
  5. harrison

    harrison Spanish Shawl Nudibranch

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    well.. i plan on having a pretty strong protein skimmer and i'm not sure what type of filter and lighting. i do plan on stick feeding the wasp/ghoul and all other fish so i don't have to worry about competition and excess waste.

    What type of lighting and filtration would work and yet be easily maintainable?
     
  6. chelseagrin

    chelseagrin Fire Goby

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    i would suggest softies for a beginner, kenya trees and leathers are all very hardy and grow like weeds. any hard corals are going to require very strong expensive lighting. and not to mention fantastic water quality.
     
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    harrison Spanish Shawl Nudibranch

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    oh ok wel trees and leather corals are awesome!
     
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  9. Newreef15

    Newreef15 Horrid Stonefish

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    sumps are easy to maintain :)

    and kenya tree, xenia, gsp, zoas softies are easy