What's your oldest coral?

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For me, it is another green toad stool. When I got a used 6 gallon nano cube from a reefer with some rocks, a green toad stool came out of 1 of those rock and it has made the journey with me for over 5 years. It has had many frags; some went to friends other went on craigslist. None of the frags was sold on the forums cause they have minimal value to the new hype corals. I still like the way the tentacle moves until I see the Japanese toad stool! Anyway, here is a few months old picture in my old tank. I keep the toad in the back of the new tank behind the big rocks now so I can't really take a good picture of it.
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Nice eveyone! Keep 'em coming! Love the toadstools, definitely my favorite softie:) Some of these colonies are crazy big too lol.
 

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Is that one a yellow fiji or a toad? Well they are very similar actually :)
1 of my yellow fiji
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Mine is definitely my toadstool at almost 12 years now. Currently over 16" across. My crocea was with me 9 years full grown when I lost it.

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I haven't the foggiest. I got it so long ago, I am not sure the store even knew. I know in blues the base glows light green and the polyps are white. Not sure that helps. :)

When I got it is was less than an inch in diameter. Still one of my favorites in the tank.
 
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I haven't the foggiest. I got it so long ago, I am not sure the store even knew. I know in blues the base glows light green and the polyps are white. Not sure that helps. :)

When I got it is was less than an inch in diameter. Still one of my favorites in the tank.

It's definitely different then other toadstools I've seen. I love the white polyps:)
 

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I had to dig through lots of years of photos to refresh my memory for this one.

13 years for the blue mushrooms, Green Caulastrea 10 1/2 years

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12 years for these Dragon Eye Zoas, Back when they were cool. I have always had a few, but they definatitely did better in the old softy 29 under PCs than they do in the SPS tank.


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Longest SPS 9 1/2 years
Green Stylo, this is an older picture, I have fragged it down countless times.

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Longest Acro, Green slimer 9 years


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Currently I believe my oldest is the red montipora in the middle of the picture, most of mine don't stay too long, I usually grow them out and sell them. About two years old

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Had this brain for about 1 year and 2 months

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What a lovely brain you have.

Great topic @ReefQueen! My oldest corals are my green palys,Alien eye chalice and a Fire and Ice/Pina Colada zoa rock.I have owned them for at least 5 years.I will always be fond of my green palys because they are bullet proof and the polyps grow the size of quarters.Here's a picture of the zoas.The Fire and Ice(below)out competed the other variety years ago.
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My Alien eye chalice before I had to frag it.I grew this up from a 2" frag,the container shown is 9" by 9".
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These are all great everyone! I'm interested to see if anyone has anything older then 29 years:)
 

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