Hi everyone,
I was wondering about possibly adding some soft corals to my existing SW tank. It's almost 8 months old, all water values are in suggested ranges ...
pH = 8.2 / Sp. Grav. = 1.024 / temp. = 82 / ammonia = .25 / nitrites = 0 / nitrates = ~10-20 (I do weekly to bi-weekly water changes ranging from 10% - 25%)
I don't want any corals that will take a lot of effort and additives to maintain and I don't want to sink a ton of money into lighting, so I'd like to add some easy corals that require little light. To elaborate on my current lights I use to have just the flourescent (sp) bulb that came with the hood but I was talking to the LFS guy and he said I could upgrade my light to a 10,000k bulb and probably keep some polyp type corals and maybe some mushrooms. What about bubble corals? Also I was wondering if there were any fancier corals (the kind that kind of look like anemones) that don't need high lighting?
One other quick question ...
I have seen these things that look like thin mushrooms and they grow on pieces of rock ... (I think they are called mushroom anemones) do these take a lot of experience and extra care to keep?
Thanks for any advice you can give. I have pretty good faith in my LFS guy but want to really find out about these things before I go spending a couple hundred dollars on corals only to have them die because I was given bad info.
I was wondering about possibly adding some soft corals to my existing SW tank. It's almost 8 months old, all water values are in suggested ranges ...
pH = 8.2 / Sp. Grav. = 1.024 / temp. = 82 / ammonia = .25 / nitrites = 0 / nitrates = ~10-20 (I do weekly to bi-weekly water changes ranging from 10% - 25%)
I don't want any corals that will take a lot of effort and additives to maintain and I don't want to sink a ton of money into lighting, so I'd like to add some easy corals that require little light. To elaborate on my current lights I use to have just the flourescent (sp) bulb that came with the hood but I was talking to the LFS guy and he said I could upgrade my light to a 10,000k bulb and probably keep some polyp type corals and maybe some mushrooms. What about bubble corals? Also I was wondering if there were any fancier corals (the kind that kind of look like anemones) that don't need high lighting?
One other quick question ...
I have seen these things that look like thin mushrooms and they grow on pieces of rock ... (I think they are called mushroom anemones) do these take a lot of experience and extra care to keep?
Thanks for any advice you can give. I have pretty good faith in my LFS guy but want to really find out about these things before I go spending a couple hundred dollars on corals only to have them die because I was given bad info.