Can any corals survive in the FOWLR tank?

[ljuhl]

I was thinking about seting up a FOWLR tank. It will be a 120 gallons tank with 1 yellow tang, 1 emperor angel, 1 majestic angel, 1 clown trigger. Since I have an extra VHO lightning system sitting around, I wonder if I can put any kind of corals in this tank. The fish list is not concrete, I can add or remove a fish if it conflicts with corals. However, I don't want another reef tank. I'd like to go with the FOWLR setup since I have more choice with the fish selection.

 

[taikonaut]

Well, once you add a live coral to a FOWLR, it is not a FOWLR tank any more until the coral dies...

Anyway, rather you want to add coral to an existing FOWLR tank and make it into a reef tank depends on how you setup the tank. In most cases, it is the fishes that already in the tank that is the main problem. Other issue is high nitrate and filter/light conflict between FOWLR and reef tank.

From the fish list you have, the trigger is the most obvious one that will get you into trouble. It will kill most hard coral when it nip on it constantly.

 

[Anonymous]

I was thinking about seting up a FOWLR tank. It will be a 120 gallons tank with 1 yellow tang, 1 emperor angel, 1 majestic angel, 1 clown trigger. Since I have an extra VHO lightning system sitting around, I wonder if I can put any kind of corals in this tank. The fish list is not concrete, I can add or remove a fish if it conflicts with corals. However, I don't want another reef tank. I'd like to go with the FOWLR setup since I have more choice with the fish selection.

You are contradicting yourself. Do you want a FOWLR (FISH ONLY) or not?
Majestic and Emperor angels are usually just fine with corals, despite what you may hear to the contrary. The trigger? Iffy at best as already indicated above. However, they HAVE been put in reef tanks with success on more than one occassion.
Your main problem is deciding what you want. As soon as the first coral is put in the tank, it's not longer a FOWLR.


Jim