What type of light do you need for this coral?

Mushroom and Leather (Cladiella) Corals
what care do you need for it? What type of lights? food?

 

Leathers and mushrooms are easy to take care of. No need for Metal Halides / LED's and dont really need to feed them, but foods like snowplankton/zooplex will help it grow faster.

 

A standard light bulb... Kidding.

 

go to liveaqauria and read up on the ones you have! they have a decent write up for almost all corals!

 

well, i just heard it was a really easy coral to care for. like, would it need all of the special lights that other corals need?

 

I have several mushrooms under T5 lighting and they are splitting on their own. I don't know about leathers, but I think you would be fine with T5's all the way around with these corals.

 

No, but unless that's the only type corals you plan to keep, I'd suggest getting a decent fixture.

What size is your tank, and what type lighting do you have now?

 

They will do fine under Power Compacts.

Power Compacts while not cheap they are a lot cheaper than T5, LED or MH.

You might be able to get away with T8 for some type of mushrooms, leather would probably be a challenge.

Typically with decent lighting you need not target feed, stable water parameters are more important IMO.