z6joker9 Posted September 13, 2003 Share Posted September 13, 2003 quick background-I have a Galaxy 5, which appears to be a rebadged Eclipse 6 system that sells for half the price. anyway, i have ~7lbs of live rock, a small percula, 2 snails and 2 dwarf zebra hermits. i did have a camel shrimp but i have not seen him recently, so he may have passed or he may be hiding. it has the stock biowheel filtration and stock lighting, which i can't tell the wattage right now, but it's probably around 2 watts per gallon. as i have a larger tank for a "show tank", this is more of my bedroom tank and i dont want to invest alot of money on extra lighting. i wanted to keep some hardy corals that dont require heavy lighting, but add some nice touches to it. since it's a small tank they'd have to get along with everyone well. with these circumstances, what would you recommend? if you think of a good suggestion that isn't related to coral, feel free to let me know it as well. thanks! Link to comment
supernip Posted September 13, 2003 Share Posted September 13, 2003 I dunno if u can keep much... maybe uh... mushrooms and some zoos. thats about it. non-photo corals? Link to comment
z6joker9 Posted September 13, 2003 Author Share Posted September 13, 2003 what are some non-photo corals? i'm at the research point right now for coral, most of my knowledge so far is on fish and motile inverts, so if possible walk me through this. for example, what exactly are zoos? if they are the flower looking things, i might have some that were hitchhikers and i might be incorrectly calling those polyops. a friend of mine offered me a specimen of Ricordea. is this a mushroom? how well with this do? speific suggestions of certain kinds would be a huge help. pointing me in the direction of a good place to read up on these would be appreciated as well. Link to comment
KamDesai Posted September 13, 2003 Share Posted September 13, 2003 You could get a sun coral (tubestra). It is non-photosynthetic, but you have to hand feed it every couple days. It is a pain, but they are beautiful when happy. Mushrooms and most zoos should be fine too. I think Ricordea need a little more light to be happy. Link to comment
supernip Posted September 14, 2003 Share Posted September 14, 2003 wait you said you had a bigger reef, a 120g reef so you should know some of this stuff. anyway, look here, it should have a good explaination of certain corals. http://www.nano-reef.com/corals/. as for non-photosynthetic corals, they don't need light but must be fed. Link to comment
z6joker9 Posted September 14, 2003 Author Share Posted September 14, 2003 correct, the 120g is about 8 months old and currently has only 4 different corals in it, each were studied individually, so outside of those four i do not know much about any other certain coral. edit: btw, thank you very much for the link. it's proving to be very helpful! Link to comment
Linda Posted September 16, 2003 Share Posted September 16, 2003 get retro lights you can get for $30. http://www.nano-reef.com/forums/showthread...t=eclipse+retro Link to comment
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