Ultra Low-light corals? - Page 2

**Fishfirst** · 02-24-2008, 09:34 PM

careful with leathers and other softies... a lot of them use chemical warfare and extrude toxins into the water, killing your precious zoas... of coarse heavy carbon use and water changes can nullify this.

kay-bee · 02-24-2008, 09:41 PM

If you had a larger tank you could go with a non-photosynthetic stony coral (such as the tubastraea or 'sun coral'), in which case lighting would be a non-issue.

Though, the amount of feeding a sun coral would require would probably make maintaining water quality in such a small tank a real chor (for some reason the last word in that sentence gets censored if I spell it correctly, but anyway here's a pic of my sun coral)

Gourami Swami · 02-25-2008, 04:07 PM

Wow, thats really nice. What exactly do you feed him? And Could I get one going with maybe 4-5 polyps, then frag and sell/give away and that grow?

kay-bee · 02-25-2008, 07:12 PM

I feed it twice a week mostly mysis, but sometimes cyclopeeze.

I've never fragged one of these before.

Gourami Swami · 02-26-2008, 08:37 PM

I guess i dont need ultra low light anymore... i broke down and bought this http://www.hellolights.com/index.asp...WPROD&ProdID=6

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02-24-2008, 09:41 PM	#22
kay-bee Member Join Date: Dec 2006 Location: Tampa, FL Age: 39 Posts: 76 User Feedback: (0)	If you had a larger tank you could go with a non-photosynthetic stony coral (such as the tubastraea or 'sun coral'), in which case lighting would be a non-issue. Though, the amount of feeding a sun coral would require would probably make maintaining water quality in such a small tank a real chor (for some reason the last word in that sentence gets censored if I spell it correctly, but anyway here's a pic of my sun coral) __________________ 4 african cichlid tanks 4 saltwater aquariums Last edited by kay-bee; 02-24-2008 at 09:46 PM.

02-25-2008, 04:07 PM	#23
Gourami Swami Supreme Dictator For Life Join Date: Jul 2006 Location: Somewhere out Yonder... Posts: 1,093 User Feedback: (0)	Wow, thats really nice. What exactly do you feed him? And Could I get one going with maybe 4-5 polyps, then frag and sell/give away and that grow? __________________ Last edited by Gourami Swami; 02-25-2008 at 04:11 PM.

02-25-2008, 07:12 PM	#24
kay-bee Member Join Date: Dec 2006 Location: Tampa, FL Age: 39 Posts: 76 User Feedback: (0)	I feed it twice a week mostly mysis, but sometimes cyclopeeze. I've never fragged one of these before. __________________ 4 african cichlid tanks 4 saltwater aquariums

02-26-2008, 08:37 PM	#25
Gourami Swami Supreme Dictator For Life Join Date: Jul 2006 Location: Somewhere out Yonder... Posts: 1,093 User Feedback: (0)	I guess i dont need ultra low light anymore... i broke down and bought this http://www.hellolights.com/index.asp...WPROD&ProdID=6 __________________

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