Starter corals?

Any other good starter corals besides zoas?

 

You can probably find other good starters by just googling it, searching this site or talking to your LFS. There are a lot of great starter corals and a lot of bad ones. Just make sure you keep up on their care and difficulty.

 

BTW nice tank. I can see it in your sig.

 

lol zoanthids are like the only thing i cant grow.:-/


Green star polyps, mushrooms, if you have the right lighting,and you no your parims will remain stable, there is some lps that are good starters, i think candy corals of the green variety is a fairly easy coral, most say frogspawn but i dont think that should be considered, i think its alot more demanding than people think.

 

If you're not allergic to common things, then you wont have a problem with zoa's. Green star polyps, mushrooms, some leathers are all starter corals. Some soft corals require a lot of light so research before you buy.

You could have something eating them....

 

The corals I have in my tank are all beginner corals and have done well. I have had and have had success with Kenya trees, turbinaria, frogspawn, bubble coral, zoas, green star polyps, finger leather, mushrooms, mushroom leather and open brain. I think that's all of them. Xenia can be really tweaky. Water parameters matter. For any corals I would keep the following parameters

SG: 1.026
NH4: 0
NO2: 0
NO3: < 20
dKH: 10-12
Ca: 460
Mg: 1500
PO4: 0

 

Thanks Buddy!