Question on zoas only tank

[daniella3d]

I personally would go with a 20 gallons and 250 watt MH or 150 watt MH. I don't have the colors as nice in my nano under T5ho than what I have in the same zoanthids specie under my 250 watt MH in my 75 gallons tank. Some are right underneat the MH and are awesome! Especially the palythoas seem to like very high light. The pink and gold turn brown under the T5HO and at the bottom of the MH tank but at the top, right underneat the MH they are a very nice gold full of speckles and with a pink skirt.



My eye of rae right underneat the 250 watt pheonix:



and this one lose its color if not right underneat the 250 watt and become sort of dark bluish. The more light it gets the more white it has. I have not tried this one with my T5HO.



Some zoanthids I have in my tank much prefer lower light and shrivel when exposed to to much light, whereas all my paly seem to prefer very high light. In any case, none of my paly color up as much under the T5HO (4 x 24 watt) than what they do under MH Pheonix 14k.

So a 20 ou 30 gallons tank with weekly water change, no need for a skimmer and a good light with some liverock for filtration and that would probably be good. At least that's how I plan to do it but I am no expert by any mean.

I have not tried LED but I would surely love to see how these 3 color up under the right LED.