hardy corals?

[TRe]

i was wondering if any one can recomend one

 

[SALTY WATERS]

First a few questions as I can't recall your tank off hand:

-lighting
-tank size
-do you have a fug
-any other corals in tank
-what fish or inverts do you have

 

[TRe]

260 watt pc's, 55 gallon tank, the fish are just a pair of maroon clowns and the mandrin, as for inverts just the normal cleanup crew peppermint shrimp, emerald crab, brittle star, various hermits, no fuge but i told my girl i wanted a sump/fuge for valentines day so im keeping my fingers crossed

 

[Joe Fish]

Well here is what I kept under 120 watts of NO.

- GSP, Seems to accepty any light you give it.
- Xenia, Indestrutable.
- Some botton polyps are survive under very little light.
- I heard leather corals are hardy as well.

 

[Lorna]

You should be fine with most softies.....and some LPS such as the euphylia's (torch, frogspawn, hammer) all mushrooms and polyps. Maybe even a candycane??

 

[joeyjoeq]

Like the green star polyps, mushrooms, and stony coral for some reason. The brains are nice too.

 

[Joe Fish]

I forgot about mushrooms. I also have a bubble coral that seems to do just fine.

 

[TRe]

yea i know i can keep any of that i was just wondering based on personal experiance as far as corals go what do you consider the most hardy coral (besides xenia/gsp,zoos,shrooms)

 

[SALTY WATERS]

Leathers are usually very hardy, I have some monitpora's in my system that grow very well under my PC lighting... though I wouldn't consider them hardy but they are easy to care for.

 

[FishGeek]

Out of my own curiosity what Montiporas Salty??? And what special things do they need??

 

[TheFool]

Montipora digitata is pretty bullet. Mushrooms, zo's , yellow polyps are pretty easy, mushrooms ok I guess. Turbinaria is another hardy stony. Xenia can be hit or miss, ditto euphyllia, though my euphyllia has withstood some abuse

 

[TRe]

yea iv been doing good with shrooms, zoos, xenia was just looking for somemore easy/hardy corals

 

[Lorna]

I have some great pieces of Monti. digitata...both bright orange and purple and also some acro. formosa green bali slimer that are doing fine....though I do have mh lighting......you should be okay and easy with the candycane too......some favia's, plates.....they are all possible depending where you place them.

 

[TRe]

a man at one of the lfs told me candycanes is $40 a good price?

 

[FishGeek]

Depends on how big. But yeah that sounds about right.

 

[SALTY WATERS]

Out of my own curiosity what Montiporas Salty??? And what special things do they need??

Montipora's are an SPS coral that come in a variety of colors/shapes... some are encrusting, others more of a branching type. THey require medium lighting and waterflow, proper calcium and strontium levels and will benifit from other trace eliments.


TRe, how many heads are on the candycane and how big is it?