Low or indirect light corals?

[Steph1]

Hi quit new to this hobby. I have a Vertical wall in my rockwork. It has a sar polyp on the top so it is in low or indirect lighting What choices do I have besides Zoas and star polyps? Duncans are not suitable as it is a vertical wall with a bit of an overhang.

Cheers

 

[AfaceInTheCrowd]

Sun coals if you don’t mind target feeding them often

 

[Steph1]

Ahha! Sun Corals.....................no photosynthisis...................nice! I love the colour of them. Thanks mate

 

[AfaceInTheCrowd]

Few nice variants available here in UK, but Feeding each polyp individually can become tedious and time consuming though

 

[josephxsxn]

When I think low light I think of Cyphastrea.

 

[Steph1]

I just did a bit of study and feeding each individual polyp will get real old real quik.....unfortunately

 

[JaaxReef]

Another vote for cyphastrea.

 

[Steph1]

Cyphastrea. Just had a quik look sounds great to me josephxsxn I love how they look also and they are available in Australia. Thank you I will do a bit more study on them

 

[Steph1]

Have had a look at Cyphastrea coral and am exited to find they hace some branching types also. Aparently they are an undervalued coral type as aparently when you put then in your tank they go a very bland colour so people get rid of them But wait a few weeks and they will colour up a lot and respond to your lighting spectrum The ones I have seen in real life are really beutifull so thanks for putting me on the right track guys

 

[JaaxReef]

Have had a look at Cyphastrea coral and am exited to find they hace some branching types also. Aparently they are an undervalued coral type as aparently when you put then in your tank they go a very bland colour so people get rid of them But wait a few weeks and they will colour up a lot and respond to your lighting spectrum The ones I have seen in real life are really beutifull so thanks for putting me on the right track guys

Check out some of the variety of Cyphastrea that Legendary Corals carries in stock. Good prices for beautiful corals. I’ve purchased from them a few times and have had great luck with their stuff and have been impressed be the coral health and colors.

WYSIWYG CORALS - ENCRUSTERS | Legendary Corals

Legendary Coral's WYSIWYG Corals encrusters selection. Ranging from various cyphastreas, leptastreas, leptoseris, stylocoeniella, psammacora, porites, and lithophyllon.

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[Steph1]

Thanks Jaax, but I am in Western Australia. There are lots here abouts. I am buying a piece about 2 ins square for $23 US of the same type as the pic

 

[Jseimo]

Plate corals do well in lower lighting

 

[SamMule]

Leptoseris would be good too

 

[Lightspeed]

Cynarina, mine is shaded by an overhang and gets no direct light, my blue channel is only 45% at 15 inches height from water lvl, 630mm of water and on the substrate and white channel at 1% on my box stock Vipars. They really seem to love really low flow and light.