Easy Coral

[H.reidi.MN]

Looking for some easier corals to keep in my 120 FOWLR which i want to make somewhat hybrid mixed reef. Am i right when i say softies are easier? Can you guys give me suggestions?

Tank:

Oceanic Tech 120, 30 Gal Oceanic Sump converted to a refugium
Coralife fixture with 2x 10k 150w, 2x 96w actinic, and 4x Blue led's. Im going to switch the 10k's for Phoenix 14k 150w's soon.

I run a light bio load right now so i dont have a skimmer or UV unit or any other reactors/specialty equipment for a full out reef tank.

Fish:

Coral beauty, star blenny, cortez ray pup. Soon to have some other angels or butterflies/ tangs possibly and a moorish idol. The ray is going to a pond when it out grows the tank.

Thanks

 

[jlong11]

Zoanthids palys or green star polyps leathers xenia even frogspawn and hammer corals are pretty hardy but u have to watch what fish u put in some angels eat or nip at soft corals and leathers so u should research which fish are "reef safe"

 

[AZBigJohn]

A lot of the "easy" corals are also thought of by many as "pest" corals because they can grow so fast and so easy. Examples of these are mushrooms, green star polyps and xenia trees as jlong11 mentioned above. Personally I keep a couple mushrooms because they act as nice "water condition" monitors. If they are open and out, water is good. If something is off, they close up and shrink (time to start checking things out).

I am a fairly newbie at coral myself, and I have had a lot of luck with different zoanthids, mushrooms and I have an open brain, a hammer and a torch coral. They all seem to be fairly "newbie proof" for me so far.

 

[H.reidi.MN]

Thanks guys. Ya right now just looking for some easy stuff to go mixed reef route then once the ray moves out I'll consider more full out reef with sps stuff

 

[fishmate]

anthelia
xenia
green star polyps
palys
zoanthids

 

[thegrun]

look here:
http://saltaquarium.about.com/od/coralcare/ig/15-Easy-Corals/

 

[chrisfont23]

Hammer corals are pretty easy once established. I had a melon sized clump that grew to a small beachball sized clump. I fragged 5 of them and have 5 melon sized ones again.

Basically from this in my 29g:

To this (now in my 90g):

 

[Bman562]

Newbie myself, and i have had good luck with mushrooms and zoanthids.

The link provided by 'thegrun' has helped me.

 

[jaynigz]

with chrisfont. hammer's are easy if you give them proper flow and lighting. normal water changes.

my hammer was the size of a football. i broke it in half. now each half has like 20 baby heads popping. It's only been 8 weeks since I broke it in half.... my tank is getting too small....

 

[H.reidi.MN]

Excuses excuses