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    Question Nice beginner corals

    I'm looking to add some "easy" beginner corals... can anyone make some suggestions? I assume tank parameters are very important in selecting corals...

    My tank:
    104G (48L x 24H x 18W)
    2 x 250 W 10000K° & 2 x 55 W PC actinics & 1 40W incandescent moon light
    135 Fiji LR
    40 LS
    2 x Maxijet 1200 powerheads (have 4 extra but 2 seems fine)
    autocontroller II, chiller, heaters, skimmer, 20G Sump, Geo CR on order

    I currently have green star polyps, a long-tentacled anenome and a bubble coral... along with some fish & cleanup crew.

    All the chemical numbers are doing "fine"

    Thanks!

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    Easy beginner corals: Mushrooms, ANY soft corol (sacrophyton, etc) you also have enough light for LPS like Green Open Brain, hammer, frogspawn. HTH...
    -mastaJ

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    well ,maybe not any soft coral;) some are quite difficult,especially some of the non-photosynthetic ones.
    looks like you have a pretty good setup to keep most anything you want..............
    like masta j said ,probly start with softies like sarcophyton,mushroom colt,xenia/anthelia,any kind of polyp -yellow green star zoanthid etcetc
    then move to some lps,any euphilia-torch hammer frogspawn etc,elegant,open brains,meat corals, blah blah blah
    just a few off the top of my head....im sure others can suggest more.

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    Thanks to you both! Much appreciated

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    Originally posted by organicreefer
    well ,maybe not any soft coral;) some are quite difficult,especially some of the non-photosynthetic ones.
    True...like dendro. (don't know how to spell it.)
    -mastaJ


 

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