boring light question

[harleychic]

Just wondering what I can keep coral-wise in a 3 gal with 18w pc's. Thanks!

[Maldivan]

any softies Id imagine and some lps types close to the light.

[sir_dudeguy]

I've got the 3g picotope by jbj and i've got the coralife 2x9w pc (so 18w total) and then the stock 9w pc light that came with the tank...so 3x9w or 27w total.

I keep pretty much everything. Any softy i've put in there is growing (too fast to the point where i'm "upgrading" the tank to a 10g :) ) and i've got a small hammer and i've got about 5 digitata corals, an elkhorn, and a monti cap and they all seem to be doing pretty well....like i said, i'm getting too much growth so i gotta move everything to the 10 so i can have room for stuff.

[harleychic]

thanks!

[circusordie16]

ive got 18W over my 2.5 and ive got zoas, rics, shrooms, candy canes, gsp, and a couple monti caps all thriving. i had birdsnest too before rtn ruined it.

[harleychic]

Glad you mentioned bird's nest and montis circusordie because I was thinking of those

[circusordie16]

i have an orange monti cap thats doing awesome so id recommend orange monti caps and my birdsnest was developing some nice color but had to be removed.

[Agu]

You'll be fragging a monti constantly. I try to go with slow growing corals that won't out grow the tank quickly.