Coral placement

[Spottedreef69]

Hi all, need suggestions on coral placement for my new aquascape. Softies and lps

. Tank is 48 x 24 x 24 120 gallon. Thanks!

 

[Flippers4pups]

Hi all, need suggestions on coral placement for my new aquascape. Softies and lps

. Tank is 48 x 24 x 24 120 gallon. Thanks!

Softies just about anywhere. LPS mid tank.

 

[Terri Caton]

Depends on your PAR. Get a LPS and put it on the bottom. Slowly move it up higher and higher. You’ll know when it gets unhappy.

 

[Jeff Jarry reef]

I just move corals around sometimes to find the happy spot they like.

 

[El_Guapo13]

You can usually find good advice on placement for specific corals here on R2R, as well as on the Tidal Gardens website. Keep in mind, it is not just about placement as it relates to light, but also placement as it relates to flow.

Also some corals can be atypical compared to the generally accpeted placment parametrs of their own species.

Case in point, my Indigo Discosoma Mushroom. Normally, advice for all types of Mushroom Corals is to place them in lower light towards the bottom of a tank in low flow. Emphasis: NORMALLY. Not my Indigo, though. It hated it towards the bottom. I wound up moving to the highest point of my tank, directly below the light, and from what I can tell the flow is notmally higher up at the top than at the bottom due to how my return nozzle is situated (pointing up towards the surface of the water). It took less than an hour for the Indigo to being all shriveled up and unhappy to spread out and quite obviously happy. A month later it doubled in size. Nowadays it fully opens to about 3.5inches in diameter, and also had itself a baby!!

But, I have noticed that usually the advice on coral placement tends to be correct.

Any specifc corals you considering placement for?

 

[ZoWhat]

Research the coral you plan to buy and see at what reef depth in nature they live.

1-10ft deep ~ high light and CLOSER to your light source

10-20ft deep ~ medium light

30+ ft deep ~ low light and as far away from your light source; possibly in shadows of LR


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[Spottedreef69]

Thanks everyone. Great advice! I have been researching coral and pay attention to light, flow etc. In terms of design it sounds like the corals are going to design the tank for me ( specific placement) based on where they are happy? I appreciate all the feedback. Merry Christmas to all!