Best coral placement

[steveoutlaw]

I'm getting ready to place frags of the following corals in my tank and want to know what the best light/flow for each of them is. I want happy corals!!

 

Oregon Tort

Purple monster

Gadgets Acro

Pink Lemonade

 

These are the only ones I'm worried about......I'm pretty good on my other ones.

 

TIA.

[reefhunter]

In my experience....

 

High Light

High/Medium Light

Very High Light

High/Medium Light

 

Strong, indirect flow...

[steveoutlaw]

Thanks Hunter.

[lanman]

Make sure the PM gets light from a couple of different directions. I'm finding under a single MH - the 'shaded' places are no longer purple, just the parts that get direct light.

 

Agreed - Gadgets needs plenty of light for max color.

 

I have NO luck with blue torts... Just had another frag disintegrate for me. Definitely needs good flow, thugh.

 

bob

[zygote2k]

doesn't it really matter to the individual coral frag? In general, acros and other SPS are going to need high light and med to high flow if they come from a reef crest. If they come from other areas of the reef, you would do best to duplicate those conditions. Otherwise, just ask the person you got the frags from to see where they had placed them.