At LFS need help pickin out first coral

[ilikefish69]

Which of these would be a good first coral? Want to see if tank can support coral lifw

 

[reefah]

GSP, cyphastria & zoas.. cant really make out the others without an orange filterr.

 

[ilikefish69]

Ya I can’t get a great pic without the blues on

 

[Kellie in CA]

The Green Star Polyps are nearly impossible to kill. Just don’t attach them to your main rockwork!

 

[monkeyCmonkeyDo]

Any of the mushroom corals. Lol.
D

 

[reefah]

i think i see duncans.. duncan was my first coral... Still have this sucker two tanks later and it has like 100 heads now

 

[vetteguy53081]

Pics are awfully blue
Unless you know your actual parameter numbers, start with :
Candy cane coral
GSP
xenia
mushroom
leather or toadstool coral

 

[monkeyCmonkeyDo]

I see what could be a piece of cabbage leather coral at the top of the 3rd pic. Wouldn't be bad choice either imo.
D

 

[i cant think]

The Green Star Polyps are nearly impossible to kill. Just don’t attach them to your main rockwork!

… Dang, seriously they’re that hard to kill?
Must be a pro or something.
It’s not new or anything and actually the tank can hold LPS and SPS growth quite happily.

 

[i cant think]

Which of these would be a good first coral? Want to see if tank can support coral lifw

Also, I see what appears to be a favia in the first photo which is also a good starting coral and was one of my first corals along with Duncan and Torch colonies.

 

[ilikefish69]

Went with GSP and Florida type mushroom, those are my fav. They have acclimated well, look like they are happy with the two orphek. I am now rethinking the GSPplacement, any recommendations

 

[Koh23]

Please, rearange a bit your rock, wall is not great option regarding flow or coral placement....

 

[i cant think]

Went with GSP and Florida type mushroom, those are my fav. They have acclimated well, look like they are happy with the two orphek. I am now rethinking the GSPplacement, any recommendations

I have mine on the back wall where it was doing great for a good three or so months then recently went into decline.

 

[ilikefish69]

Please, rearange a bit your rock, wall is not great option regarding flow or coral placement....

The plan is to put about 2/3 of that in the sump yet to be built, and create the nsa sort of look for the aesthetic but keep the rock in the system for filtering. But ya it does not look great. Lol

 

[ilikefish69]

Nowhere near 75 lb of live rock in the display but it’ll look neat and still have the 1:1 for rock to gallon requirements plus a lot of extra

 

[homer1475]

If you like fish like your nick suggests, skip the NSA. Worse thing that ever happened to this hobby in regard to our fish.

 

[Koh23]

Why?

It is possible to create nsa, and still have plenty of room for fish to swim, and plenty of cracks, holes, caves etc for fish to hide....

 

[homer1475]

Subject has been beat to death, and I do not want to start that discussion on your thread.

Just my opinion on NSA.

 

[ilikefish69]

Subject has been beat to death, and I do not want to start that discussion on your thread.

Just my opinion on NSA.

Well crap I can’t do rock wall and can’t do NSA what is best way to arrange 75 lb of rock

 

[ilikefish69]

This was the other set up I had