How much lighting for a hammer coral?

[Djm9288]

HI, could i keep a hammer coral with 2x36 daylight PCs and 2x13 actinic?

Thanks

Daniel

[Kapelakin]

That's plenty of light for a hammer.

[Djm9288]

would there be anything I couldnt keep?

[OscarBeast]

Originally posted by Djm9288

would there be anything I couldnt keep?

 

I am sure there are plenty of things, but that should be fine for most common critters that us nano reefers like to keep.

[Djm9288]

yeah thats what i meant

[Sahin]

Thats fine for a hammer coral. I think hammers and frogspawn require similar light levels, and as my frogspawn is doing fine in my tank at the bottom, I think what you have is fine.

[NaNO ReeFiN]

Just wondering, would I be able to keep a frogspawn in a 7 gallon tank with 27watt lighting?

[Sahin]

Hey Nanoreefin, is that 27watts PC?

If yes, the ansers IMO yes, you can.

I am keeping frogspawn under NO lighting, and it has grown quite a lot since I got it. It also was in a bad condition at the LFS and has perked up and growing quite well.

[Sahin]

Oh, the only problem you might have is that the frogspawn is said to have sweeper tentacles that can sting other corals, so in a 7G that might be a problem. I personally have never seen a sweeper tentacle on my froggie though.

[NaNO ReeFiN]

Yeah it's PC, I currently don't have that many corals in my tank so keeping the frogspawn isolated away from the corals wouldn't be much of a problem.