Coral placement ?

[DakotaTheHutt]

Hey all! The tanks about ready to have my coral affixed properly and gear mounted correctly, based on the pictures where do you think the best places for each coral are? I plan on more hammers, torches, meats, scolys, and zoas, with a few sps mixed in there. Any suggestions for locations ? Thank you in advance.

 

[Mastiffsrule]

Hello,

Tanks looking good. I am not sure what light and power head you have, but it looks like you have sufficient light and flow for most coral the way what you have looks. I am wondering what is on the powerhead now, an anemone?

I would put meats and scolys towards the bottom and on the sand. Hammers and lps middle, sps more towards the top 1/3. If you put in zoa leave room for them to spread, as any encrusting or branching coral.

 

[Dkmoo]

Softies and lps can generally tolerate varied light ranges if acclimated slowly and that the "eye test" usually will be fine in terms of the typical "high light, moderate light, low light" requirements that you can find online for general placement advice for each coral.

Before you venture into SPS I would suggest renting a par meter to map out your tank to see how much light that top third actually has. You'd be surprised how many times I thought my tank is "bright enough" but PAR meter tells me I'm at least 100 short for my acros