Specifically, which corals like nutrient rich water?

[gmdcdvm]

Hello,
My QT tank is slowly becoming a bit of a display tank. I feed the fish pretty heavily since one is a Copper Band butterfly that is still learning to eat something other than shrimp. I don't seem him graduating to the display any time soon. So, I thought about adding some sort of hardy coral that likes a lot of food/nutrients in the water. I am looking for specific coral recommendations not just general types. Let me know what you think.

Gerry

 

[tribbitt]

NPS like sun corals or rhizotrochus might be fun depending on how you feed

 

[psidriven]

If you want more ulitarian coral for nutrient uptake, I’d suggest any macro algae.

 

[H2OPlayar]

They all like nutrient rich waters imo.

Hardy ones are soft leathers, most zoas, duncans, hammers etc.

 

[gmdcdvm]

Macroalgae have not done well in there for some reason. I have a hammer and candy cane in there.
The NPS sounds interesting. Feed two to three times a day. Pretty heavy for a 60g tank.

 

[gmdcdvm]

Let me rephrase this, what corals like high nitrates and phosphates?
G

 

[Darkxerox]

Xenia do well as an export coral. Could keep them under low or ambient lighting like @Turkeysammich

Same for capnella or easy stuff like rhodactis.

 

[Turkeysammich]

Xenia do well as an export coral. Could keep them under low or ambient lighting like @Turkeysammich

Same for capnella or easy stuff like rhodactis.

I have them in my overflow box. They live fine with natural light to extremely low light. They do detach and I find them in the sump floating around.

 

[H2OPlayar]

Let me rephrase this, what corals like high nitrates and phosphates?
G

That is how I ran my old tank, and my new one too. Everything was super happy, including my sps. I never could do well with millies though. P04 got up over .8 and nitrates over 80. Same answer. Softies and lps like really nigh nutrients, and some sps can do really well with them. NPS need small food particles which raise the po4 and no3 usually, but fish poop can feed them too.