Looking for suggestions to brighten up my tank so it looks like a reef

[isaac1]

Hi I'm wanting to brighten up my tank I have a couple corals but aside from them it looks pretty bland, 1 brain coral,2heads of frog spawn,a hammer coral and 2 chromis I want to add more things to covet up the rocks but I'm not sure what to put because I don't want conflict in my tank? 25 gallon reef

[lastlight]

Some SPS sounds like a must =) Got pics? What's your lighting etc like?

[paddyob]

Originally Posted by lastlight

Some SPS sounds like a must =) Got pics? What's your lighting etc like?

+1... what lights are you currently running?

[ponokareefer]

Mushrooms, leathers, and zoanthids are all less demanding but quite colorfull. There are quite a few different colors/shapes of these types of corals as well. You can typically pick up frags for cheap of all of the above.

You could look at pulsing xenia and star polyps as well, but they can sometimes spread too much in tanks.

You'll need decent lighting for SPS and are typically more difficult to keep than the others listed above.

[isaac1]

I have t5 lights so hard corals are out of the picture and xenia just dies in my tank, I posted a thread a while ago my tank crashed so I'm just rebuilding it up now

[Ross]

Originally Posted by isaac1

I have t5 lights so hard corals are out of the picture...

T5 or T5 HO?

[ponokareefer]

Originally Posted by isaac1

I have t5 lights so hard corals are out of the picture and xenia just dies in my tank, I posted a thread a while ago my tank crashed so I'm just rebuilding it up now

Xenia do the same thing in my 125gallon, but do well in my RSM130. I have heard they can be very hit and miss, but are so cheap that it isn't a big deal.

I'd recommend going to a pet store and looking for a frag tank and pick up a bunch of little things from there, or look for people on canreef selling frags. You could fill out your 25 gallon for pretty cheap.

[paddyob]

Originally Posted by ponokareefer

Mushrooms, leathers, and zoanthids are all less demanding but quite colorfull. There are quite a few different colors/shapes of these types of corals as well. You can typically pick up frags for cheap of all of the above.

You could look at pulsing xenia and star polyps as well, but they can sometimes spread too much in tanks.

You'll need decent lighting for SPS and are typically more difficult to keep than the others listed above.

Zoanthids are a tricky coral. Some do very well in any tank... others do not. Requirements can vary a lot from coral to coral.

[isaac1]

T5ho