i have a 150 gal with 300 lbs of live rock .....my tank was fish only and i just went out and got my first coral a green toad ......what do i need to do next i have the equipment i need some info on chemicals and what direction to go in
thanks
eric
It depends on what you want to do. Soft corals are easy and look wonderful in a tank full of them, but having more than a few or not coralling them so they don't grow out of control could preclude your keeping SPS. LPS looks similarly wonderful, and has higher requirements, in general, than soft corals, but lower requirements, in general, than SPSes. And then there're the wonderful colored sticks, plates, and encrustations of SPS tanks, which have the highest demand for light and supplementation -- generally. Clams generally have requirements similar to the stereotypical SPS.
What you really need to do is read some books, look online, and see others' reef tanks, and get an idea of the kinds of corals and such that you like -- and get an idea of their care requirements. If your lighting's lacking, you could probably still go with many soft corals, but SPSes and clams, in general, would be out.
Generally though -- mushrooms, zoas, acans, and plate corals are pretty hardy. (The latter two because you can make up for deficits in lighting through feeding.) The common pink digitate and shelf forming montiporas are hardy and usually cheap, if you want to see if you can get SPS to survive in your tank.