Good fish for my tank?

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Jacob Abshire

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I have a 46 gal reef tank with 60lbs live rock and 70 lbs sand/coral mix. 13-14 corals both soft and hard.

I have about 3 watts per gallon both atinc and daylight and was wondering if acupura (sp way, way off but I mean the hard sps coral) with this lighting if I put the coral right at the top of the tank? I have a favites brain that is doing great as well as trumpet coral that is doing good also.

I only have a CBS, small orange starfish, green brittle star, 2 turbo snails, and a camal shrimp with a jawfish and 2 clowns. I want to get some other active fish that will swim around in the front of the tank like the clowns. Can any one think of a good fish? A blue, yellow, or green fish would be good. What about any green corals?

Jacob.:confused:
 
hey there jacob,
what kind of light? If you are looking at getting into acroporas they like intense light and lots of water movement. So I would venture to guess that you will need to add a little more lighting (7wpg although I hate the wpg rating thing) how far off the water is the lights? what kind of water movement do you have?
for a green coral you could try a green montipora digita. they are a little more light tolerant but tend to brown out under minimal lighting. There are a plethera of green corals or green morphs but I am not sure if you lighting is all there.
t
 
Agreeded,

Depending on the tank, you would need different lighting, Really the WPG is not too efficent, its an allright start.. the way it really should work.. or from what i have learned over the years it goes by Depth for intesity.

Meaning, Depths equals the lighting..

tank under 10 inches deep, ( Normal outputs should work )
10- 24 inches, VHO lighting or Metal Halides,
anyting Deeper than 24 inches.. and you have to have halides..

So if you are looking to keep Acaporas, I keep a Brown montidigapora ( one of the hardiest SPS) and i had it in a 30 gallon tank running 6x 40 watt NO's thats @ 8WPG and the polps would never come out, left these lights on for about 2 weeks before i became concerned.. So then i added a 175 watt Halide and ran 2 40 wat actinics.. that was running @ 8.5WPG but more Intesive Watts per gallon, and with in a day my Polps had jumped right out.. and with in the 3 week period it had grown almost 10%..
 
tooloud,
and what is even better it will probably change colors before too long!
t
 
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