Xenia Coral

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Hi,

I was just wondering if xenia coral would do ok in my tank. My tank is a 20 gallon tall tank with 55 watts of compact fluorescent lighting. I have a DIY hood with two 20 watt coralife mini compact fluorescent 50/50 bulbs with 50% 10,000K lighting and 50% Actinic lighting and in addition to that I have a normal 15 watt fluorescent strip light that is 10,000K. My water params are as follows: 0 ammonia, 0 nitrite, <5 nitrates (I have some chaetomorpha in the tank), 8.3 pH, 1.023 sg, and 0 phsophates.

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all right. Are there any corals that I could keep alive with these lights and have them stay happy? Right now I have a bunch of shrooms and they are doing great and growing a lot.
 
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zoas should do well. at least all right. sun polyps don't do photosynthesis so they'll do great. but because they don't use light for food, you'll need to hand feed them. I've also heard LPS coral will do fine in lower lighting settings.
 
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alright I'd rather not hand feed. What kind of cheap and colorful zoas or lps would work well in this tank?
 
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^^Agreed^^

If you get several different varieties/colours of zoas they can look quite dramatic when they eventually grow together. I've got quite a few myself and they're just starting to spread enough to blend. If I remember rightly Grins also has a "zoa garden".

This is what I've done

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