What is the best coral keeping for beginners?

[sixpackgarage]

I wouldn't do star polyps and I would be careful about mushrooms. They are both easy to keep but can overrun your tank. They are not easy to thin out. At least that has been my experience.

I was just going to say the same as well as xenia.. just skip all the nuisance beginner corals because it's just a headache to try to get rid of them later when they are growing on everything.

I think the advice on Monti and many of the LPS is sound because they are hardy and won't become a pest.

 

[MikeyAl]

What is the best coral keeping for beginners?

Soft corals:

Palythoa

Zoanthid- not all

Mushrooms

Toadstools

Kenya tree



LPS:

Frogspawn

Hammers

Torch coral

Octospawn

candy cane



to name a few

+ 1 and will add colt coral.
I would start with mushrooms and Zoas and see how they do then start adding slowly.



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[josuer302]

^+1 always a good starting point

 

[wesamazmy]

Plate coral is easy to me

this is mine

https://youtu.be/HfU7r7VjGZ4

 

[Jah2707]

all of the corals listed above are good beginners coral, except for the goni's. I don't have a sump and I do not want to dose or feed coral. I have softies and a few lps. converted from fw two years ago and wanted an easy to maintain tank. it's never going to look like those beautiful sps tanks, but so far I'm happy.

You did an excellent job with coral choice but even better job setting up the rock and look of the tank.

Love it.

 

[wesamazmy]

this is the coolest one I have ever

https://youtu.be/aazWG9xNaIE

 

[thelawnwrangler]

What you suggest to keep for beginners like me
I have 55g reef tank
If you can suggest please add photos as well
Thanks

I love green star polyp - have it isolated if you don't want it to take over your tank.

 

[Timfish]

The stuff other aquarists are throwing away but that should also be a warning sign they're invasive.

 

[BeachVacationer]

I like my toadstool and sinularia. My acan has done very well too.

 

[wesamazmy]

I love green star polyp - have it isolated if you don't want it to take over your tank.

https://youtu.be/s40nAkCuQ7U

I have one, attached to a separated rock, I can trim it when needed

 

[garethwood]

your best bet is to find a local fush group and see what frags they have to spare. that way your not wasting money on pieces from your lfs that could die in a week. you can then tweak positions and lighting and flow to suit and see what you can grow : )

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[RogueGrown]

This ? Was asked over a year ago and it seems to me he's doing it right [emoji23]

Wesamazmy can you post a picture of your current tank?


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[garethwood]

lol teach me for not reading whos replying to what post and the timeline oops.. i just saw the question and answered it.. but yeah seems his choices have done him well now that ive actually read it bk : )

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[wesamazmy]

This ? Was asked over a year ago and it seems to me he's doing it right [emoji23]

Wesamazmy can you post a picture of your current tank?


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I actually I left my tank to my father to take care for it because I moved to another city, this is a bad story, any way this is the last picture received a week ago

http://www.reefcentral.com/forums/attachment.php?attachmentid=365898&stc=1&d=1485154573

anyway I cant live without a tank and I am working on 120g build now
this is some video

https://youtu.be/l0cN3fqwg94

 

[RDCompton03]

I would stay away from palys. Recently lost all sps's and lps's in tank due to paly toxins released by my simply blowing off a large colony of them. They wiped out virtually everything in the tank within an hour. Palys should come with a warning whenever sold. As nice as they look, green start polyps will eventually be a problem in any tank too.