What coral is your tanks canary?

[Froggy]

I have heard Birdsnest's are one of the 1st to show stress/effects of something being off in the tank's chemistry. What coral acts as your alarm and shows you something is off kilter ?

It would be nice for us to see what corals wake us up to act and make the neccessary changes before it is too late !

Joe

 

[Mattik]

I would agree with birdsnests....monti's usually come in second (cap's the exception).

My mille's are bullet proof!!! I'm slowly building up a mille dominated reef because I've grown to love the mille's for that....I'm trying to find every color out there to start a colony with.

 

[maestro]

Birdsnest for me

Seems to colour up - brown out first before the acros so you can see where you are at.

 

[losthere]

Chipps acro, the tips start peeling. Or my true undata.

 

[Scooter902]

Canary

Canary

I have a orange Nodosa that will bleach if you look at it funny.

 

[Froggy]

Thanks for the input and getting the list going.
I think it would be great to have a list of corals that we can use as a reference for future troubles, that way we can correct a problem before it turns into a full blown tank "crash".

 

[jimroth]

I agree about Chipps! I thought I was the only one. My birdsnests do fine, so do the other acros, Chipps looks like it has herpes.

 

[thebanker]

My tank's canary is a finger leather. If anything is off, it looks like a limp zombie baby hand.

 

[reefsponge]

Mine is the purple monster, alk shift and I see slight base recession.

 

[ryanrid]

echinata

 

[spartanomega21]

tenuis for me

 

[eep013]

another birdsnest here...

 

[ReefBum]

My Cali Tort (RIP). When it got pale I knew my Alk dropped.

 

[Elan L.]

any of my corals that are praticularly expensive

 

[JAustin]

My salifert Alkalinity test kit. Dead give away.....

But for the thread I think birds nest is very sensitive.

 

[seminolecpa]

Mine is an Austera. If my alk drops below about 350-375 the tips start bleaching.

 

[michael.lemke]

monte digi as well as birdsnest.

 

[werdlone]

I have an encrusting monti...purple base with green polyps..wild colony with no name, that is my weather vane. It starts to lose color as soon as my parameters get out of wack.

 

[sanababit]

I have a orange Nodosa that will bleach if you look at it funny.

hahha, i know what you mean, lol

 

[MechEng99]

I know I'm crazy for this, but I keep a quarter-sized piece of Green Star Polyps in my tanks as the canary. They are the first thing to not come out if there's a problem...plus, they're impossible to kill, so I don't risk losing my canary. It's just annoying when I have my pretty SPS...and friends come over...point to the GSP...and say, "OOoooh, what's that? It's really pretty!" Arrgh! (Plus, I have to trim it all the time.)