plate coral minium light requirements?

[bboyin4lyf]

just wondering what the minium light requirements are for a plate coral?
i just cant seem to find any specific requirements and the details that im getting from various websites varies alot. if any one has any expeirence with this coral could they let me know

cheers

 

[Len]

There are a couple types of plate corals, but I am assuming you're referring to Fungia sp. These do well in a board range of lighting conditions, but if you want to retain their brilliant colors, they should be very well lit. MH lighting can really bring out their colors, and it would allow you to rest them on the substrate. The flat ones generally are less acustomed to bright light then those that are more convoluted or dome shaped.

 

[rayjay]

I have a green and an orange, both short tentacled, in a 20g tank lit with just two 20 watt fluorescent lamps.
When the green one was in my larger, better lit tanks, it wouldn't open up for some reason, but when I put it in this 20g tank, it changed almost immediately. I also keep xenia pom pom, green varigated mushrooms, and hairy mushrooms in this tank.
Like my other tanks, these corals and shrooms are not fed other than getting what ever I feed the fish.
The only fish are a perc clown and a cleaner wrasse.

 

[bboyin4lyf]

thanks for the great responses!
cheers
bboyin...

 

[Anonymous]

they are PIGS too, more than any other type of coral I've owned, I supliment the lighting with lots of food