Different corals in Australia

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Because I'm new and don't know which are SPS, LPS, hard corals or the other ones I forget the names of, I wasn't sure which section to post these in so I figured this was the best spot. If you can ID them for me that would be fantastic, otherwise, I just wanted to share what lovely corals I can get at my LFS in south eastern suburbs of Melbourne, Australia. :D
 

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It won't let me add any more pics :(
 

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OK, not the program, just me learning to use the uploader :D
 

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Another lot...
 

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The blurry bits in the images just previously were because I was close to the wave maker (I think that's what it was). Here is the last photo (for now), and another "little" thing they had as well as the corals. ;)
 

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Some of your IDs :) Not all of them will be right, but this is what I think.
Pic 1. Favia.
Pic 2. Clove polyps (these look different to the clove polyps I see here on r2r occasionally, but it's what my LFS sells as clove polyps)
Pic 3. Heliofungia.
Pic 5. Blastomussa.
Pic 6. Same as pic 2.
Pic 7. Meat coral.
Pic 8. Zoas and same a pic 2.
Pic 9. Duncan.
Pic 10. A crazy looking heliofungia, Catalaphylia, hammer.
Pic 11. Acro.
Pic 13. Favia.
Pic 14. Fungias, the small green one may be sold as a helmet plate coral.
Pic 16. Same as pic 2.
Pic 17. Same as pic 2.
Pic 18. Hammer.
Pic 21. Zoas/palys.
I hope that helps.
It really depends on your set up as to what ones you could put in your 2ft. We need to know what lighting you have as well as how much flow, what your water parameters are and how long the tanks been set up for.
I think rob might mean go for a bigger tank lol.
 
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Thanks so much for that. LOL, yes, bigger on the tank makes sense now. I was actually joking about fitting them all in as I know that I have to start small and build up as I get more
experience. I have a canister filter, 350 ltrs/hr, a skimmer, not sure of flow, and a powerhead, 3000 ltrs/hr. So, If my maths is correct, I have a total turnover of at least 3350 l/h. For a 216 ltr tank this is 15.5 times the tank volume circulated every hour?

Lighting is only a 2ft single white reef light. I want to upgrade this to LED as I don't like the washed out colour I have now. Some of the early pics of my tank were taken with just a clip on blue/white led and the blue really brought the colours out more.

The tank has been set up for 3 weeks now. pH 8.0, Amm 0, Nitrite 0, Nitrate 5-10, KH 8
 

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Thanks so much for that. LOL, yes, bigger on the tank makes sense now. I was actually joking about fitting them all in as I know that I have to start small and build up as I get more
experience. I have a canister filter, 350 ltrs/hr, a skimmer, not sure of flow, and a powerhead, 3000 ltrs/hr. So, If my maths is correct, I have a total turnover of at least 3350 l/h. For a 216 ltr tank this is 15.5 times the tank volume circulated every hour?

Lighting is only a 2ft single white reef light. I want to upgrade this to LED as I don't like the washed out colour I have now. Some of the early pics of my tank were taken with just a clip on blue/white led and the blue really brought the colours out more.

The tank has been set up for 3 weeks now. pH 8.0, Amm 0, Nitrite 0, Nitrate 5-10, KH 8

Thanks eric :)
Like I said, I might not be 100% accurate, but it's something at least lol.
For flow, the general rule of thumb is 10-20x turnover for fish only and most soft corals (corals without a skeleton), 20-30x for most LPS (corals with a skeleton, but they look like they live "on" the skeleton, not "in" it. They generally have the big fleshy parts showing) and 30+x for most SPS (corals with a skeleton that look like they live "in" the skeleton you see mainly the skeleton and very small fleshy parts sticking ou). Because yours is roughly 16x you could do a very nice soft coral tank with a few nice lower flow liking LPS in there. That multi colour heliofungia would be awesome!
With that light though, you may want to hold off on corals. You can get some low light ones in there, maybe some mushrooms and zoas. But most other corals would need atleast 2 tubes or more, LEDs, or metal halides. I hear you on the washed out colour, I'm only running one tube on my 2ft and hate it lol.
Looks like your cycle has kicked over nicely. Have you added a CUC?
 

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Bigger the tank bigger the water volume less spikes on your parrame
 

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