Super easy and beautiful SPS to keep?

[steventaylor702]

I'm looking for some nice looking SPS that are pretty easy to keep and suggestions and if you can put pics also. I have a green birds nest right now and one other type of SPS that I'm not sure of in my tank now that are doing ok

 

[footballdude2k3]

I would go with some montis, can't go wrong with a rainbow encrusting, or a forest fire digi.

A bird of paradise birdsnest would look great too.

Stags and mille's once you decide to make the leap into acros

 

[Peter Eichler]

Various tricolors are usually pretty easy to color up and maintain, the same with red planet.

 

[Tweaked]

Acros and super easy is an oxy... well you know. I would stick with montipora as stated, in addition to stylopora, and poccilopora.

 

[maikoa02]

Monti caps and orange Digita. Setosas are pretty hardy for me too.

 

[chrismhaase]

Super easy and beautiful SPS to keep?

All good suggestions above. However be careful, it is EXTREMELY addictive. Once you get bit by the bug it is game over.

 

[leveldrummer]

Find yourself a green slimer frag, they are very stable acros to start with. In my experience, any coral that has been in the hobby for a very long time and has been traded several hundred times between tanks is a much stronger coral to try.

Get corals from other hobbyists, not maricultures or wild collected colonies.

 

[steventaylor702]

Ya I'm noticing that a lot of the frags from store are sickly and out of the four pieces I bought only one of the hasn't bleached out and that's the green Birdsnest. The two SPS I got from another hobbyist in a trade I think the are acros are doing great

 

[footballdude2k3]

If they're bleaching and you're not to familiar with SPS, that could be anything from light shock or unstable tank conditions, all the way up to some sort of a pest, are you dipping your corals if you are not QT'ing them?

 

[steventaylor702]

I keep my tank stable with weakly water changes and adding supplements as needed I and do did the corals in coral rx. I haven't really thought about the light shock only becuase the tank they came out of were running halides and I'm running a four bulb t5 but that could be a possibility

 

[B.BASH]

Purple stylophora

 

[brad65ford]

stylo, poccila would be the easiest to keep alive, monti's and digi's not as easy imo.

 

[degibson84]

My first sps was a rescued monti cap. Started spreading like crazy so I bought a pack with a purple stag, yellow tort, and a purple stylo. All of which have started encrusting and spreading

 

[glaukos]

I would go with some montis, can't go wrong with a rainbow encrusting, or a forest fire digi.

A bird of paradise birdsnest would look great too.

Stags and mille's once you decide to make the leap into acros

+1:thumbsup:

 

[Andyf30]

The only catch to everything people are saying is that everyones tanks are different. I struggle to grow montis but my acros are flyin along. I agree with the suggestions tho. Grab montis, and if those do well then move into stylos and poccis and then if those do well move into easy acros and so on. I agree with the getting bitten by the bug. Got my first sps like 2 years ago, and havent stopped since!