Best corals for newbie?

[Rick]

I'm into my second year with my reef tank. I took thing slow at first
with just learning about the basics with first starting out with live
rock and just a few fish. When I purchased the fish in the tank I made
sure they where reef compatable and currently i have a
Yellow Tank
Maroon Clown
Blennie
Half black angel
coral beauty
Goby
emerald crabs
hermit crabs
snails ect.....

Now I want to find out which corals are the best for beginners. I just
purchased Aquarium Corals by Eric Borneman and I'm excited to learn
about all the wonderus things in this book. I also have
Polyps-Mushrooms Torch Corals-Hammer Corals and feel as if Im ready to
begin with other corals. I thought I would start collecting Acropora
Is his coral a diffucult one to keep or what other corals are Hardy
for beginners.

I

I have a 125 gal
Ca Reactor
2-250 watt Mh lights

What suggestions do you have?

THKS/Rick

[Wayne Sallee]

Acripora are not dificult to keep if you have *good*
lighting, and water flow, and don't get caried away with
adding to much additives to the water, and the general
aquarium care. But I can't stress enoupgh the importance
of good lighing. Most people get into reef tanks with
substandard lighting.

Wayne Sallee
Wayne's Pets



Rick wrote on 11/15/2005 10:28 PM:
> I'm into my second year with my reef tank. I took thing slow at first
> with just learning about the basics with first starting out with live
> rock and just a few fish. When I purchased the fish in the tank I made
> sure they where reef compatable and currently i have a
> Yellow Tank
> Maroon Clown
> Blennie
> Half black angel
> coral beauty
> Goby
> emerald crabs
> hermit crabs
> snails ect.....
>
> Now I want to find out which corals are the best for beginners. I just
> purchased Aquarium Corals by Eric Borneman and I'm excited to learn
> about all the wonderus things in this book. I also have
> Polyps-Mushrooms Torch Corals-Hammer Corals and feel as if Im ready to
> begin with other corals. I thought I would start collecting Acropora
> Is his coral a diffucult one to keep or what other corals are Hardy
> for beginners.
>
> I
>
> I have a 125 gal
> Ca Reactor
> 2-250 watt Mh lights
>
> What suggestions do you have?
>
> THKS/Rick
>

[Mirek]

I have a 55g. and am just starting to consider corals and such. fowlr
right now. i have 260w of pc. thats almost 5 per gal. Is that adequate
for corals. and what kind?
Thanks
Mirek

[Wayne Sallee]

Yea that will do. Good startig corals would be Mushrooms,
branching montipora, lettus montipora, button polyps, sea
mat, star polys,,,,

Wayne Sallee
Wayne's Pets



Mirek wrote on 11/17/2005 10:10 PM:
> I have a 55g. and am just starting to consider corals and such. fowlr
> right now. i have 260w of pc. thats almost 5 per gal. Is that adequate
> for corals. and what kind?
> Thanks
> Mirek
>