40 watts of lighting
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the watt-per-gallon rule is pretty much useless.
YMCA is correct 40w over a 10 is enough to keep softies, and some LPS like frogspawn, hammer, candy cane. But it's not enough to do most of the popular anemones. However there are ones that you could try that don't need any light. They are not going to be the kind that fish host in though.
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YMCA is correct 40w over a 10 is enough to keep softies, and some LPS like frogspawn, hammer, candy cane. But it's not enough to do most of the popular anemones. However there are ones that you could try that don't need any light. They are not going to be the kind that fish host in though.
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These are normally referred to as sebae anemones, and no it's pretty unlikely to survive in your tank period. Sebae anemones tend to be some of the hardest to keep alive in the aquarium. Experienced folks with large aquariums have a difficult time keeping them because they're delicate, and any change in water quality can kill them off quickly. They also need a lot of light since they mainly depend on their zooxanthellae for energy, with vitamin enriched shrimp, krill, or other meaty foods periodically.kentmoney said:excellent. what otehr recommendations do you have for corals in my tank? if it helps, i ahve two ocellaris and one firefish along with two hermits and three turbo snails. the guy at the LFS said that a malu anemone would do fine in my tank with my lighting. bullshit?
You should be able to keep the full range of soft corals, as well as the LPS I mentioned.
I'm running a 32w 50/50 PC lamp over my 7g minibow. I've got mushrooms, zoos, a toadstool leather, a rasta leather, candy cane, frogspawn, hammer, and a small frag of sun polyps in the tank.
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