are all cyphastrea low light corals?

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I have 4 cyphastrea frags
Meteor shower
Purple people eater
Bizarre
Sponge Bob

I am curious, are they all considered low light corals? Or are their significant differences between them?

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Honestly it's a range of answers. I've seen both high and low light recommendations from coral vendors. the only one I recall specifically is that branching cyphastrea are a high light variety...

If you consider that they can eat food with their polyps, unlike SPS generally, then they don't necessarily need as much light as SPS. So I would just go medium light and base it off how their polyps and tentacles look. For their size, they are very expressive.
 

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