Best Low Light Coral?

What do you all recommend as the best corals to put in your low light areas? The areas under the rocks or in the back of the tank, stuff like that?
Just curious,
Adam

I like gorgonians and sponges along with the mushrooms.

I had have some zoos that did well in a low light tank however are now doing better with more light. I also will agree with the woods polyps and shrooms. Oh also star polyps seem to do well with little light

The pics in the gallery show my tank that was lit by ordinary fluorescent 40 watt tubes, six of them!

Extinct (in the wild) Palau Green Nepthia grow just fine along with Mushroom Leather Coral in this tank belonging to Orrian Rich of Ogden. It is lit with two ordinary fluorescent 40 watt tubes. He wants to trade or sell coral and I have his number if anyone is interested.

When I was up at MSM during their Founder Day Sale, I talked to Randy about this very subject. He got out a coral ID book and the book said that the polyps on Nepthia do NOT retract at all. If the polyps retract, it's more than likely Sinularia.

Sorry, but the idea that coral polyps don't retract is foriegn to me. I don't believe it.
The last time I had communication with LeRoy Headlee, this coral was the Palau Nepthia. Randy is probably wrong on this one, unless the experts have changed their mind! Yes there was discussion for years and at one point I also called it sinularia, but I'm persuaded by what I've heard, and discussed, and seen of it's behavior for 6 years that it's Nepthia, although it really doesn't matter. I just figure that we WMAS people have more of it and have done more with it than anyone else. I got mine from Tom Miller as payment for a motel room when we went to visit LeRoy the first time together in 1996. Orian got his from Tom or me.

Randy's is from me also!

This coral, more than most others I've experienced, grows differently according to the lighting and current.

Though I have not seen it, if Fish-4-U acquired their specimen locally, I would bet $$$$ that they got it from a WMAS member or former member. If not local, it's possible it found it's way around from Tom Miller's (Tom lives in Smithfield UT and used to write a regular column for Marine Fish Monthly) original single specimen he acquired around 1993 and which has been propagated like crazy and sold nationally. It's actually amazing that it went extinct in Palau since it seems to grow so well for many of us. Perhaps it was meant for the hobbyist.

I need to mention something here. More than once I've heard the experts and professional hobbyists (Borneman, Sprung, etc.) caution us about doing our own coral identification. Jake said it just recently here on the message board. Most people cannot I.D. coral to any good level of accuracy since the classification protocols involve many aspects of a scientific nature including microscopic and post-mortem examination!

For me it doesn't really matter, call it what you want, but it sure is neat that we are helping recover the "California Condor" of our hobby.

SAVE A REEF - GROW YOUR OWN

That tank came back from an employee or former employee that took home one of the two or three frags I gave them more than two years ago. I believe Randy indicated to me, that it is the same coral I gave them. Another frag is in the softies tank just outside that room, unless they've moved it. I'm ebarrassed to say that I haven't been to MSM for a while even though it's just down the street from me and I pass by almost every day
That coral, whether Nepthia or Sinularia is fascinating to me. It's one of the center pieces to my 10 gal. At one time, it was the major coral in my 75. There were 5 or 6 pieces a little larger than an outstretched hand. Growing under ordinary fluorescent! It is gorgeous under just actinic lights!

I think that Xenia is a great low-light coral.

If you are willing to put a little effort into a coral. Sun Polyps are beautiful and one of my favorites. They don't require light at all. Although they can have as much light as you want to give them.
Where can I get a frag of this Nepthia? Mark?
Thx,
jason