Corals / Anemones/ lighting

Peter Pan · Joined: 17 Dec 2007 Posts: 57

Wayne Sallee wrote:
> You need to do more research
>
> Wayne Sallee
> Wayne@WayneSallee.com
>
>
> Peter Pan wrote on 1/14/2008 6:32 PM:
>> I did some research on lighting: Some corals have low to medium light
>> requirements where others require Moderate to high levels of
>> lighting. It all depends on the coral.
>> Thanks everyone for your responses.

Wayne
this is one site that had low - moderate light requirement corals, there
were plenty of corals that needed more lighting on other sites. I did a
google search on Low light corals and founds several web sites

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KurtG · Joined: 10 Dec 2007 Posts: 57

Don Geddis wrote:
> But sure. "Some" corals have low light requirements.

Black corals need hardly any light. That's why they are found so deep
in the ocean. There are entire coral beds lying in 300 ft of water
where light would be murky at best. These probably live off of marine
snow rather then photosynthesis.

Whether you'd want to keep them in your aquarium, would be a different
question. I'd turn it around and ask what you want to keep, and then go
from there. Zoos and mushrooms are rumored to be the easiest and lowest
light species that commonly kept.

--Kurt

"Big Habeeb · Joined: 10 Dec 2007 Posts: 17

Peter Pan wrote:
> I have a FOWLR and I'm thinking of adding corals and or anemones. I
> don't know anything about either of them so I'm here doing some
> research. I know I don't want to buy any special lighting other then
> bulbs so, from Soup to nuts, what will I need to do?
I'm successfully keeping some zoanthids and mushrooms using those fancy
schmancy flor bulbs....not fiddling with metal halide or anything, and
they're doing OK. From what I undertand the only thing that is flat out
eliminated from contention by doing it this way are clams and the like...

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