Favorite "low light" corals

[ReeferMatt]

So I have been moving coral again and have made a lot of room in the bottom 6 inches of my tank. I was wondering what your favorite corals are for the sand bed or very low light (my 6 bulb t5 doesn't do a lot at the bottom of my 30" deep tank). Looking for corals that have good color and don't need a lot of light. I have acans, and favias for the job, but what else do you like (zoas, tongue corals, disc corals, whatever)? Feel free to post pictures!

 

[FinsUp]

ricordias and shrooms are my faves. I've also got a small, yet bada$$, colony of deepwater zoas that seem really happy a couple of inches up from the bottom in a medium/high flow area.

 

[Walkpraz]

My zoas seem to do very well on the sand bed of my Biocube, just with the stock pc lighting. Although its hard to beat a nice ricordia garden situated on the sand bed.

 

[SAZAMA]

Dendros or any nps coral

 

[ReeferMatt]

loving the suggestions, keep em' coming! I have seen some of your tanks, I know you have some cool stuff on the sand!

 

[jgonzz]

Wellso, acan, favia, plates, chalice

 

[09bumblebee]

+1 love me some acans and blastos.

 

[FinsUp]

how much and what you put in the sand bed will depend on whether you have a sand sifting goby (or other substrate-disturbing critter)

 

[Cake_Boss]

Re: Favorite "low light" corals

+1 chalice

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[FinsUp]

oh yeah! Blastos! Love my blastos.

 

[MartinsReef]

Re: Favorite "low light" corals

I like them all!

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[ReeferMatt]

May have to move some chalices down and see what happens to them. Both of these lightened up a bit but I have them high as they looked great in a shallow frag flat under Led.

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I may have to add one of my own favorites. On a whim I put a piece of hollywood stunner on the side of a rock at the very bottom of the tank under an overhang. To my surprise it grew with very little light, looking great but growing slow.

 

[Haulin Oates]

Favorite "low light" corals

Elephant ear mushroom!! Mine got to 16"

 

[jahmic]

I have a couple leptastreas in my tank...one is a tyree flames from hell that is about 10" under my 150W halide and has GREAT polyp extension and color. The other one (relevant to this thread) has silver/blue mouths with a green skirt and the entire colony (about 7" x 3") is tucked inside a cave, completely shielded from light. It's definitely growing slower but looks much happier than it did when I had it getting direct light, even though it was way in the back corner of the tank at that time.

Definitely one of my favorites in my little cube.

 

[ReeferMatt]

Hmmm, very nice