Quote Originally Posted by 350gt View Post
What lighting are they under and what have you learned about them? Do they like flow? Lots of light? I Got the bug awhile back and invision a chalice sand bed. Some ppl like sps, I like chalices.....
Tony, my experience has been that they like medium/low flow and lower light. Too much light and they either bleach their colors out, or just die, and too much flow discourages the extension of feeding tentacles and flesh expansion. My chalice tank is under a 3' T5 fixture, with the daylight bulbs only running about 7 hours a day. It's a six bulb fixture, suspended 30" above the sandbed. My other chalices are in the 72 reef in my bedroom, they are also on the sandbed, about 28" under my mh/t5 combo, and they are placed around the edge of the liverock, so they get more indirect light than direct light.

I can't offer any advice on raising them under leds, since I have never seen one come out of an led tank that didn't look crummy (or at least really color up fantastically after getting away from the leds).

Just remember, even tho they are all chalices, most of them do NOT like their own kind, and will resort to warfare if they can reach each other with their sweepers. The absolute worst one I have hands down is my Teebs chalice. He has 3-4" sweepers, and will wipe out anything he can reach. My Christmas chalice is badly behaved as well.