Amount of light wattage needed to for low light corals?

larsson · 04-12-2003, 09:10 PM

What amount of wattage is needed for low light corals in say a 29 inch tall tank, and an 22 inch tall tank? How about medium light corals? I'm interested mainly in mushroom corals.

mjsandbe · 04-23-2003, 02:43 PM

You can keep many common mushrooms under Normal Output Flourecents. If you are going to invest at all into lighting I would suggest going for a little something more. Have you lookeing into Doing It Yourself(DIY) lighting?

wildthings44 · 04-23-2003, 03:22 PM

For the first year of my reef I had a 4 bulb shop light on top of my tank

I kept shrooms, and leathers, and even a couple of LPS! (of course those hung out at the top...) If you are careful to avoid the things that need a lot of light then all is cool (right?)

Prismaco · 04-23-2003, 05:03 PM

I use a 1x96watts 50/50 for my 20"x19"x10" tank. I got shrooms, anenome and some polypls....all doing well...

-Paul