i have all my corals under helide light, but i want to move some corals into different tank, 55 gallons with 4 65W 6500K flouracent blue and white daylight lamps. i have yellow and green pollips, leather tree coral, brain coral and mushrooms that i was looking into moving into 55. please, tell me which corals should stay only under helide. i always was under impression that leather corals need helides. i went on line and didn't see any special notes on any of these corals about them having to be under helides only, but only crocea clam. thank you for any input.
As far as the leather corals go, i've kept them without MH lighting. In fact, I had one that grew so large that I could remove parts of it at will producing about 10 frags every month. It always healed and kept on growing. Futhermore, in my previous 125G reef, I had a green hammer that grew to be a magnificent thing. I was using a canopy resting directly on the top of the tank with 6 36" Coralife 6500K bulbs in a 50/50 set up. That was 10 years ago, and due to a move, I had to break it down and sell off everything. :mad2: (The LFS took the hammer and it is still in their show tank today!)Alas, that was then and this is now and I am back in the game. Currently I have 1 leather that I picked up cheap at my LFS off the bottom of their tank hanging out under a ledge and it's recovering quite well.
We keep all of these corals under 4x65w PC lighting:
5 different toadstool leathers
branching hammer
wall hammer
metallic frogspawn
various mushrooms
2 different candy canes
pipe organ
pink bubble
kenya tree (more like kenya weed)
5 different types of Xenia / Anthelia
favia brain
blastomussa merletti
various zoas / palys
We're about to change to T5 HO, which will probably only mean moving some of them down lower in the tank (something that should help balance our tank's appearance).
well doesn't that depend on what kind of brain it is? Aren't there several types of brains? I have a type in my PC setup that opens up nicely and seems to be doing well.
