Low light corals

[Wolf89]

Hi all, I'm just getting into this great hobby. The thing is, I dont have tons of money to spend. I have a 20 gallon with about 10 pounds of live rock. I was hoping if you guys could point me in the right direction with a few corals that don't special coral lighting. Thanks

 

[James M]

What lighting do you have ?
Soft coral and some lps are your best bet

 

[Billy Aguillard II]

Hi all, I'm just getting into this great hobby. The thing is, I dont have tons of money to spend. I have a 20 gallon with about 10 gallons of live rock. I was hoping if you guys could point me in the right direction with a few corals that don't special coral lighting. Thanks

Zoanthids, leathers, mushrooms, Duncan acans

 

[Hemmdog]

Dendro

 

[Billy Aguillard II]

Dendro

Dendrophylia are not great for a beginner, it’s NPS and you have to feed a bunch. I wouldn’t recommend

 

[Daniel Waters]

Leather corals, xenia and green star polys (both can be like weeds, though), zoas, acans, hammer corals, frogspawn, duncan corals, acans. All are pretty low light demanding in my opinion.

 

[James M]

Dendrophylia are not great for a beginner, it’s NPS and you have to feed a bunch. I wouldn’t recommend

Welcome to reef2reef !!!
Agree !!

 

[Marcus_Alexander]

Duncan, leather, Xenia, and GSP are great starters! Most lights will grow them with no problem.

 

[Backreefing]

eBay and Amazon have affordable lights . You can do a lot with little $$
Like for example check out this t5 single bulb light I picked up from amazon $30

 

[Backreefing]

Sorry I forgot to say hello first

 

[Hemmdog]

Dendrophylia are not great for a beginner, it’s NPS and you have to feed a bunch. I wouldn’t recommend

Yea well you don’t need a good light is what I was getting at lol.

 

[Billy Aguillard II]

Yea well you don’t need a good light is what I was getting at lol.

Oh sorry[emoji106]

 

[Vibrant Orange Zoanthids]

Hi all, I'm just getting into this great hobby. The thing is, I dont have tons of money to spend. I have a 20 gallon with about 10 pounds of live rock. I was hoping if you guys could point me in the right direction with a few corals that don't special coral lighting. Thanks

Sun Corals do not need light at all. As long as your water is stable and you're willing to feed them, they'll do just fine even without light.

 

[Dr. Dendrostein]

Hi all, I'm just getting into this great hobby. The thing is, I dont have tons of money to spend. I have a 20 gallon with about 10 pounds of live rock. I was hoping if you guys could point me in the right direction with a few corals that don't special coral lighting. Thanks

Welcome, welcome! !!

 

[Wolf89]

Dendro

Dendrophylia are not great for a beginner, it’s NPS and you have to feed a bunch. I wouldn’t recommend

Welcome to reef2reef !!!
Agree !!

A little research told me that dendro can feed on copepods. My tank has tons of them. Would I need to manually add copepods to the dendro or would it get them itself?

 

[James M]

A little research told me that dendro can feed on copepods. My tank has tons of them. Would I need to manually add copepods to the dendro or would it get them itself?

I’ve never heard of that

 

[Vibrant Orange Zoanthids]

A little research told me that dendro can feed on copepods. My tank has tons of them. Would I need to manually add copepods to the dendro or would it get them itself?

I have several dendros as well. They'll eat any kind of meat. I feed them mysis.

 

[Gareth elliott]

I also vote mushrooms, undemanding and great starter coral that is easy to control and less moody than leathers or zoas.

If ever move into the higher light area would add photosynthetic gregorians. Like the same light and flow as your sps but without the same water chemistry requirements.