What type of corals have you kept successfully under PCs?

[loonz]

Hi,please do share your experiences.Also, besides books, are there any sites that have extensive information on coral-keeping requirements?Thanks in advance!

 

[SeaMac]

Before I upgraded my tanks, I had a 20H with 2x55 watt PCs. I kept the following corals successfully, with noticeable growth over the year the tank was setup:

Bubble coral
Yellow-tipped torch coral
Red open brain
Sarcophytons
Candycane/trumpet coral
T. squamosa clam

Hope that helps...

Chris

[ September 17, 2001: Message edited by: SeaMac ]

 

[scooterr]

i have 4x55 on my 55 gallon. I have kept lots of softies and some LPS including open brains, frogspawn, torch, hammer,and disk(fungia). I have also kept birdsnest with minimal growth but doing ok. Haven't tried any clams yet but if I would dersea or squamosa would be the best choice.

 

[Jase]

I used to have a 55 with 4x96 w pcs.
It was a mostly sps tank, all of which did well. Could never keep mushrooms though...go figure!

See if you can find Eric Bornemans book on Aquarium Corals. Fabulous book.

 

[esmithiii]

I have 2x55W PC on my 55G with the following corals:

Sarcophyton
Lopophyton
Mushrooms
ricordia
gorgonians (various photosynthetic species)
many zooanthids
blue ridge coral
capnella
euphylia paradivisa
xenia
GSP

Most do quite well under my lighting, but I have 2x400W MH on my 180G

Ernie

 

[chris_h]

crocea clam, bubble anemone, cats paw,and an open brain. I am planning on trying an anacropra.

 

[trybka]

I've got 2x28 w in a 35 g hex (24" deep) and I've got a torch, hammer, frogspawn, and toadstool leather thriving! I bought the hammer partially receded from the LFS and it's growing back into the area it had receded. All seem to be doing real well.

 

[kevjtomy]

Open brain, bubble coral, xenia. Yellow, white star, green star polyps. Large green, and small green button polyps. Toadstool leather and shrooms in a 72 with 4x96 PC's.

 

[Mouse]

I have the following under regular flourecents 2 x 30w white, 2 x 30w Actinics.

Torches
Open Brains
Moons
Goinopora (emerald crab killed it but it was growing fairly fast)
Xenia
Shroomz

I have tried to keep acroporas in the past but lost them to Green hair algie, which is now dead hooray. so i might try them again, but ihave to say that i think there is maybe only two positions close enough to the bulbs for them, and i do intend on a system upgrade.

 

[loonz]

Thanks for the replies everyone,it's been very encouraging indeed.I've placed an order for Borneman's book with BAMM,but with the grounding of airspace,I wonder when I'll receive it though...sigh.

 

[davelin315]

I have a 6x96Watt PC setup directly on my 125 and have the following corals and photosynthetic inverts. All are doing well and growing constantly, including the clams.

--Soft Corals and Polyps--
Large Colt (Cladiella)
Devil's Hand (Lobophytum)
Finger Leather (Sinularia)
Toad Stool (Sarcophyton trocheliphorum)
Green/Brown Tree Coral (Lemnalia)
Xenia Elongata
Xenia (Pom Pom)
Anthelia
Cabbage Coral (Lobophytum crassum? or Sinularia dura?)
Brown Star Polyps (Clavularia)
Button Polyps - Brown/Red and Green (Palythoa)
Yellow Polyps (Parazoanthus gracilis)
Zooanthid Colony (Zoanthus)
Green Hairy Mushrooms (Actinodiscus)
Red Mushrooms (Actinodiscus/Discosoma)
--SPS and LPS--
Green Candy Cane Coral (Caulastrea furcata)
Blue Ridge Coral (Heliopora coerulea)
Bird's Nest Coral (Seriatopora)
Montipora digitata
Montipora capricornis
Acropora cerealis
Acropora millepora
Acropora formosa
Favites (pink and brown)
Open Brain (Trachyphyllia geoffroyi)
Blastomussa wellsi
Pocillopora
Galaxea
--Miscellaneous Inverts--
Crocea clams
Purple Long Tentacle Anemone (Macrodactyla doreensis)
Green Bubble Anemone (Entacmaea quadricolor)