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

[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.