[Roady]

I am really wanting to purchase some frogspawn for my aquarium, but I've run into a problem. I'm getting conflicting information on this coral's lighting needs. Half of the info says that it needs moderate lighting and the other half says it needs strong lighting. I was just wondering if anyone knew from experience?

[stephaniesquires]

Elegance Here's an article that might help - or add more confusion...

[72fishboy]

got mine under 65w compact and 250 wat MH and it's doing fine

[glampka]

Had mine under 2x55 W PC before the tank crashed during the storm. Now have some under 2x96 W PC - no problem.

[Roady]

so PCs should work fine?

[glampka]

Shouldn't be a problem.

[Roady]

Thanks....I'm going to buy it then...I read that some species of clowns will take them as a host, do you guys happen to know which species?

[glasta]

my true clowns live in my frogspawn but i might just be lucky.

[chuck rayburn]

i love my frogspawns they are under 4x140 vhos and doing fine. i think one is about to split again, too. yeah!

[wesley6610]

Originally Posted by glasta

my true clowns live in my frogspawn but i might just be lucky.

My Sebae's do the same thing with my torch coral and it seems to be working out just fine.

[ilovemash]

PCs are totally fine. I bought a small piece it branched so i split it, now I have two pieces and they've definitely quadrupled in size and are branching yet again! My maroons also live in the larger frogspawn.

[wesley6610]

I kept both Hammer and Frogspawn under PC's and they were good also, but once I switched over to T5's they really took off in splitting heads and producing very nice coloration that I didn't see while under PC's.

[malawiman]

mine has 2 heads. had for a month, 2 65watt pc one 10000k the other has one blue one purple i belive the two types of actenic, spelling may be wrong. mine has definetely grown even in that short amout of time. i payed $25

[ianizaguirre]

i dont think their is 2 types of antic lighting ( imay be wrong ) o and dosent antic lighting give less amount of absorbable light for the corals like its just thier for the blue effec not really for growth ??
( may be wrong would like to find out though)

[e_baer]

Supposedly there is some benefit to actinic lighting, both 460 and 420nm which are the most popular actinic wavelengths. I am not on my laptop, but when I go on later tonight I have a few articles to share about this topic.

[e_baer]

and here is one of the articles....

Aquarium Lighting; Kelvin, Nanometers, PAR, Bulb, Watt, MH, LED, light basics.

[jimw369]

This thread is 10 mos old?

[malawiman]

thanx for the article alot of info.

[ianizaguirre]

interesting so sum all that up antic works but dose not give all the benfits a normal flourcent would ....correct ???