What Corals For an Eclipse 12 with A 13W "50/50" 10,000K Day / Actinic 03 ?

[fuzzybub]

I have an Eclipse 12 with A 13W "50/50" 10,000K Day / Actinic 03
Bulb. It has 16 pounds of live rock and 20 pounds of live sand. It holds about 9.5 gallons of water. What low light corals could this support?

[sir_dudeguy]

What kind of light are we talking about here? PC? N.O T5?

I'm gonna take a stab and guess its just a normal output strip light...in which case you'd be very lucky if you got mushrooms to grow. IMO you need at least PC's to get soft corals to grow.

[fuzzybub]

Actually its a compact flourescent: Heres the link:www.hellolights.com/13w5010dayac.html

[sir_dudeguy]

IMO you need at least PC's to get soft corals to grow.

OK i'm gonna correct myself here...with your light, you could probably get mushrooms only. But for anything else, i'd seriously recommend getting something like 2x18 or 2x36 (i think those are small enough?) pc's.