Corals for normal output lighting

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gswarri0rfan

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Hey everyone


I am thinking of having some corals that would survive in normal output lights or stock lights that came with my tank. Is there such corals? I have heard of mushroom corals and polyps that would be ok with my lights. Any particular corals that come to mind? I already looked at the sticky for soft corals. I am just not sure if they are ok with my lights.

Also, I talked to the guy at lfs, he told me I could just replace my flourescent lamps with 10,000 k lamps that they have. He told me my current ballast would be ok. He said it would be sufficient to have corals in my tank. Is this true? I want to clarify the information first before making the purchase. I looked at the wattage of the 10,000 k lamp and it is about the same wattage as my stock lights.

My tank is still cycling, but I want to do my research ahead of time so I could look around before the actual purchase.


Thanks in advance for all the replies
 
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sweeTang21

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some sun corals would like the low light, but im not sure you would have much success in such basic lighting. I would get a basic t-5 unit. depending on your size tank, prices will usually range from 60-100 dollars. This light depending on the height of your tank will keep mushrooms and some leathers.

http://www.marinedepot.com/ps_searchItem~SearchText~nove+extreme%2ct5+ho%2c460nm~IdCategory~FILTFI~breadcrumbsid~6348778~searchlogtext~Fixtures~logtype~current_category~searchstep~1~pageindex~0~parsed~1~category~Saltwater_Aquarium_Supplies___Lighting-Fixtures.html
 
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gswarri0rfan;2196210; said:
Hey everyone


I am thinking of having some corals that would survive in normal output lights or stock lights that came with my tank. Is there such corals? I have heard of mushroom corals and polyps that would be ok with my lights. Any particular corals that come to mind? I already looked at the sticky for soft corals. I am just not sure if they are ok with my lights.

<<Shrooms, and some polyps would ok with stock lighting, seen plenty of very basic lighting setups with these corals in therm>>

Also, I talked to the guy at lfs, he told me I could just replace my flourescent lamps with 10,000 k lamps that they have. He told me my current ballast would be ok. He said it would be sufficient to have corals in my tank. Is this true? I want to clarify the information first before making the purchase. I looked at the wattage of the 10,000 k lamp and it is about the same wattage as my stock lights.

<<I would not go with that. Lighing fixtures are tested at manufacturer with specific bulb types. Swapping bulb types leaves you open to a potential issue>>

My tank is still cycling, but I want to do my research ahead of time so I could look around before the actual purchase.


Thanks in advance for all the replies
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I would go with sweetang21's advice and go for a cheap end of scale T-5 lighting unit as they cost very little for a standard fixture....
 
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gswarri0rfan

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Shrooms would probably be my best bet before I upgrade my lights. I was surprise though that there are fixtures out there that seem to accomodate my budget. I always thought all fixtures for corals are all around the 300s range and above.
 
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kay-bee

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A non-photosynthetic coral such as tubastraea ('sun coral'), as previously mentioned, would work, you'd have to feed it though.
 
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reefkeeper

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if you placed some mushrooms and softies at the very top of the tank they might be ok for a few weeks but thats about it,,they would decline imo. if you wear to get a t-5 retrofit kit for you existing hood you could keep all the lo-light corals you wanted to
 
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