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Flash 01-14-2009 06:06 PM

Lights and soft corals!
 
I have this light currently.. and I wanted to add some soft corals most likely zoas.. is this light sufficient enough. This is for my 10gl nano tank.. it's just boring and I'd like to make it a bit more livey

http://www.bigalsonline.ca/BigAlsCA/...plight1x28watt

hillbillyreefer 01-14-2009 09:53 PM

I was keeping zoas under a 13w in a 5.5 gal tank, they did alright. If your ten is a standard ten gallon it will be much shorter than my kids 5.5. You'll have more light at the bottom and it should work even better.

Flash 01-14-2009 09:56 PM

awesome! I just want a few little colorful thing?

Trigger Man 01-14-2009 10:41 PM

You can also place the zoas higher up in the tank so that they get more light.

Snaz 01-14-2009 11:00 PM

I have two coralife PC bulbs over my twelve gallon.
1 x 28w 10K
1 x 28w Dual Actinic 50/50

My Zoas are growing great and all my softies are healthy. Rics, zoas, frogspawn, xenia(grows fast!), mushrooms, GSP. I also have a new little Dendro that does not need light, just hand fed every 2 days and it looks awesome!

Myka 01-15-2009 12:54 AM

Zoas should be fine, same as mushrooms. There are a few corals that don't require light like Sun Corals (which need to be fed a few times a week), and Fox Corals. GSP would probably do ok as well.

wgama 02-20-2009 03:37 PM

My lights are very bright on my 16 gallon nano tank but I feed my corals reef roids and everything does really well! I have two 15 wats on my 16 gallon tank which is less watts per gallon than that would give you, so that fixture should work.


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