Easiest corals to care for
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Gsp ( isolated on an island), zoas, mushrooms and leathers.
Define "success."
If your only goal is to have coral in your tank and have them grow and multiply:
* Xenia/Anthelia/Cestipularia
* Green Star Polyps
* Clove
* Kenya Tree
* Toadstool Leather
* Devil's Hand Leather
* Zoanthid
* Mushrooms (esp. Rhodactis)
* Cabbage
Do note, though, that most of these corals pose several long-term problems. For one, they all engage in fairly heavy chemical warfare to carve out their space, so if you want to keep other corals you need some decent filtration (especially activated carbon, a protein skimmer helps as well) to mitigate this.
Second, most of them have a tendency to spread like wildfire in your tank. Without an advance plan (like the aforementioned isolation island) they can easily cover every surface in your tank. The two biggest offenders here are GSP and Xenia, but all of them other than the leathers can spread pretty quickly. Toadstools can also drop babies like crazy, but it usually takes them a few years to get big enough that they start doing this, and the resulting babies are easy to pick up, attach to a frag plug, and sell/trade to other hobbyists/LFS.
Gumbies R Us
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Zoas are very easy to keep like others have said
Brandon3000
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I started with Zoas, just be careful to keep them away from your main rockwork if you don't want them spreading. Made that mistake before.
Plan little rock islands for them
Plan little rock islands for them
Wayofthereef
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Devils hand leathers, zoanthids that are more og the popular variety like rastas, scrambled eggs, eagle eyes ect.. some variety of mushroom.. sps - montipora of anykind as long as maintain basic parameters those will grow like weeds. But anything softie is the way to go when starting out.
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