What is you favorite coral? (1 Viewer)

[bpb]

Zoas are cool if you get some absolutely fantastic colored ones. If you don't, there are just too many negatives to adding them to a mixed tank, for me anyway. They can become invasive, especially the uglier ones. And the more attractive ones (again, for me anyway) tend to grow real well, reach a critical mass, then just die in the blink of an eye for no reason I am aware


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[Luman01]

Ok I'll look around for it and I have a monti cap and a reverse superman monti In my tank and the monti cap pinkish in color is growing and the reverse superman is kinda growing. But I'll let you know if I can find any!

 

[Paul Buie]

Zoas are cool if you get some absolutely fantastic colored ones. If you don't, there are just too many negatives to adding them to a mixed tank, for me anyway. They can become invasive, especially the uglier ones. And the more attractive ones (again, for me anyway) tend to grow real well, reach a critical mass, then just die in the blink of an eye for no reason I am aware


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if it is your first tank, go for it. If not, I wouldn't recommend. Do some hardy lps if you can, hammer or frogspawn are hardy torch too. Especially the green ones.

 

[Reefahholic]

Zoas are cool if you get some absolutely fantastic colored ones. If you don't, there are just too many negatives to adding them to a mixed tank, for me anyway. They can become invasive, especially the uglier ones. And the more attractive ones (again, for me anyway) tend to grow real well, reach a critical mass, then just die in the blink of an eye for no reason I am aware


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What scares me is that you can be severely infected from the mere slime. A band saw can aerosolize it. If a rock is pressure washed, you can be affected. The slime can wipe out an entire tank of stony corals causing everything to RTN and die.

So many risks that need to be well respected.

 

[Reefahholic]

I just tried to research that toxin level of Julian's Palythoa and didn't find anything. He said it would be tested and published back in 2015. I'm sure the info is out there. If anybody finds it let me know. I'm very curious.

If you didn't watch that video, please do and share it.

 

[reefling]

Acans and hammers. LPS are my favorites. It's like having 100 Venus fly traps in your living room.

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[Reefahholic]

Acans and hammers. LPS are my favorites. It's like having 100 Venus fly traps in your living room.

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What do Acans like? I have a small frag that struggles. He looks real good sometimes, but I guess they like dirty water or something. It just doesn't do well. Maybe I should try a different one.

 

[reefling]

What do Acans like? I have a small frag that struggles. He looks real good sometimes, but I guess they like dirty water or something. It just doesn't do well. Maybe I should try a different one.

Feed them mysis once or twice a week. They do not need intense sps light either.

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[Clownfish Chris]

What do Acans like? I have a small frag that struggles. He looks real good sometimes, but I guess they like dirty water or something. It just doesn't do well. Maybe I should try a different one.

Like a soft coral, they don't like ultra clean tanks so much. With a tank as clean as yours, you will have to target feed it for sure.

 

[Luman01]

I feed my acan cobalt coral food once a week with phytoplankton mixed! I see six new heads starting to pop out! And I have him under 14,000 kelvin of light!

 

[Clownfish Chris]

And for my favorite coral? I love multicolored acros. I will begin collecting more of them very soon.

 

[Luman01]

They prefer like 5 ppm of nitrates. But not to sure about phosphate.

 

[Clownfish Chris]

They prefer like 5 ppm of nitrates. But not to sure about phosphate.

.02-.05

 

[Luman01]

I for sure want some Acros but I'll wait a few more months to put them in my 13 I need to stabilize my alk mag and cal.

 

[Luman01]

Ok that's what I thought. I need a more accurate phosphate checker I'm using the API one. It just comes out to 0ppm

 

[PorpoiseHork]

I'd have to say my Heliofungia actiniformis (LT plate coral) is my current favorite. It's got intense bright and dark green striping on its main soft body with bronze tentacles much like this one.

When it is fully extended the body is about 6-7" in diameter with 4-5" long branching tentacles. It's voracious too, It along with my Duncans are the only ones that I can count on to show a daily active feeding response when the fish are fed.

 

[Luman01]

Wowww that's is beautiful!!

 

[PorpoiseHork]

It's not mine, just a photo of one one like mine looks like. I'll have to take a picture of mine tonight.

 

[TX_Punisher]

Some sort of table acro or smooth skin. A multi colored milli is on my list too

 

[PorpoiseHork]

Wowww that's is beautiful!!

This one is mine. Of course my lighting is not ideal for the maximum color but I'll be fixing that at some point in the near future.