Do you still have any of your first corals?

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Just looking back to wend I’ve first started my first reef tank around 6 years ago and just realised that am down to just one coral from all the corals I got on that first year.

Does anyone that been in the hobby for a wile still got most of they’re first corals?

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Only two things survived a heat wave meltdown in 2002. Green striped mushrooms and green centered brown palys.

From the "new" tank set up in 2010, I have the green mushrooms, red mushrooms, palys, nepthia, and colt.
 
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I have a frag of one of my first. Does that count? It is around 16 yrs old.

that’s bloody amazing, id be well chuffed if I had a souvenir from my very first coral that long in the hobby :)
 

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First trip to the store for coral purchase 10 yrs ago:

1) 1 inch Maxima Clam - about 5 inches still going strong today.

2) Green Lobo - dead

3) Green Favia - still alive and well

4) purple toadstool - dead

5) Green sinularia - Alive but banished to the sump.

6) Green tentacle fungia - dead but sprouted 100s of babies of which the ones I kept are going strong.

7) Kenya tree - still alive no matter how many times I cut it down.

8) Green Star Polyps - still alive in various small patches despite my best effort to kill it all.
 

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My current tank is about 12 years old. Just took the attached photo 5 mins ago. The marked up photo has all the original coral circled. Even though many of the old corals have survived, I have lost many as well. Sadly, I have actually lost the majority of my favorite corals. Loses were mostly caused by disease and fish.

Survivors:
Multiple Types of Brain (largest is over 12" now- It started at 3")
Multiple Types of Birdsnest
Mushrooms
Multiple Types of Encrusting Montiporas
Multiple Types of Paly
Multiple Types of Acros
Pink and Yellow Pocclipora

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I have a piece of the pagoda cup coral I bought back in 1998. This was the first stony coral I ever purchased. About 75% of the colony died when I had a huge GHA outbreak in 2012. But I cut off this piece and managed to keep it alive. I hope I have it another 20+ years.
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one of my first purchases was a rose bubble tip anemone, it's been with me for almost 10 years now! = )

How many do you have now? I have a BTA from when my Tank was 1 year old, and 3 years later have ~ 30 or more (can't really count them all).
 
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I have a piece of the pagoda cup coral I bought back in 1998. This was the first stony coral I ever purchased. About 75% of the colony died when I had a huge GHA outbreak in 2012. But I cut off this piece and managed to keep it alive. I hope I have it another 20+ years.
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That’s impressive :)
 
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My current tank is about 12 years old. Just took the attached photo 5 mins ago. The marked up photo has all the original coral circled. Even though many of the old corals have survived, I have lost many as well. Sadly, I have actually lost the majority of my favorite corals. Loses were mostly caused by disease and fish.

Survivors:
Multiple Types of Brain (largest is over 12" now- It started at 3")
Multiple Types of Birdsnest
Mushrooms
Multiple Types of Encrusting Montiporas
Multiple Types of Paly
Multiple Types of Acros
Pink and Yellow Pocclipora

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Snap I did lost some cool stuff myself, mainly mushroom some do really well others just melt straight away, normally the cooler ones melt first :rolleyes:
 

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From 30 years ago? Nope, none of them...
 

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Yes, going way back to 1998, this orange Ricordia yuma was one of my first corals in my old 55g:

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It's been in 12g nano since 2008. It's had maybe 10-12 offspring, so I can't say if the current version is the original, or not.
 

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