Higher Light LPS/Softies?

[Fishbro]

So in my Biocube 32 set up about 4ish months now I’ve been trying to fill it in with LPS and softies. The lower middle is mostly filled out now just waiting for everything to grow. So there’s this top arch in higher light and no corals are on that yet. What are some higher light softies or LPS that would do good up there? Light is a Radion g4 xr-15 pro at 40%.

 

[proxy001]

zoa/mushroom should be fine.

 

[fish farmer]

xenia umbellata

 

[Dw79]

Leather corals do well in higher light

 

[BeltedCoyote]

Pipe organs seem to like higher light levels from what I’ve come up with while researching my own coral stock list

 

[Fishbro]

Would more hammer or frogspawn work too?

 

[BeltedCoyote]

I believe so, as long as you’re allowing enough space for the sweeper tentacles they’re known for. If I remember correctly (at least according to Than at Tidal gardens in his awesome coral spotlight videos), torches seem to be a bit more tolerant of higher light than frog spawns and hammers. Mind you, this is not something I’ve experienced personally. Just seen anecdotallly

@ReefSquad. What do you all think?

 

[Billldg]

Personally, on a 4 month old tank. I would wait a little. I know this is hard, lol, but you will thank me down the road. I have a TSA Black Panther torch, aka, CC NY Knicks, in roughly 200 plus par, but my tank has been around for longer than 4 months. My advice is to have patience and wait a while. We all have been where you are at some point and wanted to fill our tank. Then we realize that we really didn't like that coral, but its to late as it has started to encrust the rock. TRUST ME, patience is key to this hobby.

 

[Fishbro]

Personally, on a 4 month old tank. I would wait a little. I know this is hard, lol, but you will thank me down the road. I have a TSA Black Panther torch, aka, CC NY Knicks, in roughly 200 plus par, but my tank has been around for longer than 4 months. My advice is to have patience and wait a while. We all have been where you are at some point and wanted to fill our tank. Then we realize that we really didn't like that coral, but its to late as it has started to encrust the rock. TRUST ME, patience is key to this hobby.

Yep thanks! I’ve been trying to keep it slow but my tank is for some reason maturing really fast so I’ve been adding corals a bit faster than I’d like too haha. My dry rock is almost fully coralline encrusted and my back wall is almost covered too. But yeah, thanks for the advice, there are some corals that I bought and have started to grow a lot that I don’t like the most.

 

[DSEKULA]

Torches do fine at a bit higher par, here's some of mine right up near the acros light wise, about 270par.

 

[Fishbro]

Torches do fine at a bit higher par, here's some of mine right up near the acros light wise, about 270par.

Beautiful tank! Yeah I’m considering torches now but worried about the feeder tentacles. I think I might have to do something else besides torches or maybe just one on one side of the arch and something else on the other.

 

[DSEKULA]

Thank you!!
If you place it up top you should be fine, assuming you frag heads to keep it contained (but that's most coral). Sweepers usually extend up and to the sides not really down so much. You could always try that nice green one up there to see if it would work. Btw the one I have on the top left looks like your green in low light, it morphed to a purple/brown with green center and neon tips when moved to higher light.