LPS Corals: Are they your "thang" and which ones do you like best?

[Nick Steele]

I like a ton of LPS corals!

Euphyllia is probably top pick.
Acans/trachys are second
And I’m starting to go on a blasto kick
Really like Scolys but too expensive for me

Pros of LPS:
Don’t mine dirty water
Good movement
Decent growth
Usually cheaper

Cons of LPS:
Some can’t take a ton of light
Can’t think of anymore

Start of a Euphyllia garden

Acans and trachy

Blastos

 

[TurboSnail72]

I absolutely love my avatar chalice! Follow up favorites are cyphastrea and pagoda cups

 

[bigjgmac]

Yesterday we talked about soft corals and today it's all about LPS corals!

Today it's all about those large fleshy polyp hard corals that will reach out and touch someone with those long sweeper tentacles! I know they very in size and structure but I like to refer to some of my favorite corals as "fatty lps." It's hard to find someone who doesn't like at least one type of LPS coral! So let's talk about them today!

1. What's your favorite LPS coral? Get specific and share a photo if you have it!

2. What are your pros and cons to LPS corals?


@jourdy's 90g Mixed Reef

@kirbaay's 70g LPS Dominate

I think my favorite LPS corals are scolymia. I also have a frag of a platygyra that promises to be spectacular when it grows up.

The pros are the enormous variety and spectacular colors. The cons are the stinging sweepers.

 

[vetteguy53081]

1. What's your favorite LPS coral? Get specific and share a photo if you have it!

Trachy , scoly and Hammers


2. What are your pros and cons to LPS corals?

Easy care, colorful and provides growth not to mention lower costs than SPS

 

[Gino]

I definitely love LPS, but my goal is a mix tank, I do have few more. As well as different types of softies.

 

[Lorenz725]

I am a LPS fan love Euphyllia I caught the torch bug.

 

[H3rm1tCr@b]

I love LPS corals! I currently have a duncan, massive elegance, and a candy cane. Once I get the nitrates and phosphates back up (killing the dinos) I'm planning on getting a couple more like maybe a hammer and frogspawn. Honestly if i could I would have a tank covered in Aussie elegance. They are so hardy and beautiful.

 

[AKreefgirl]

I love LPS, they make up more than half the corals in my mixed reef. Part of the draw is the variety of shapes and colors. It's hard to pick a favorite, euphylia, platygyra, trachy, blastomussa, favia, favites all catch my attention. I love that I can interact with them by feeding them.. The biggest con is that some are slow growing and saving space for sweeper tenatcles, but as with everything else in a reef, every decision comes with trade offs.

 

[design.maddie]

Tanks only 6 months old and LPS dominate 9 LPS-to-3 SPS. That is pretty good betting chances that if you point at one of my corals there is a 75% of the time it will be a LPS. Acan and Favia dominant

 

[luisgo]

How old is that trumpet colony

I purchased the trumpet in 2012 and has been fraged many times! This photo is from January 2012

 

[Ferrell]

Big fan of LPS.
I guess my favorites are Micromussa #1and Micromussa Lords close second
also like chalices but haven’t had great success in the past but giving it another try in an LPS only setup

 

[jcolliii]

Like LPS a lot. I really like feeding them and the nearly instant response to food. More feeding = faster growth - especially with acans. Lately though I've been digging on Platygyras. There are some pretty amazing colors out there right now and they are fairly inexpensive, which means I can get more of them! Have four now, just ordered a nice sized frag of a pretty unusual color form from ASD, and I'll see what else they put up over the weekend.

ASD's photo of the new guy.

Cons? What cons?

 

[jazzfisher]

Ah Yes!!! These pic from Sat. Got a new purple torch today. No pics yet.

 

[Rogueaquariums]

1.Love the Micro Lords

great looking. Acans are my favs

 

[Rogueaquariums]

For sure this scoly i snagged for a hundo,
Only con i see is they generally grow slowly, but they are growing.

they are and sometime if you don’t feed them enough they won’t make it

 

[Rogueaquariums]

A few Acan Lords and a Apple Jacks micromussa I currently have.

 

[Anchor]

I am not happy this question was asked... I always thought of myself as an sps guy but before I answered I counted. I have more lps than sps. I guess I am a closet lps guy.

14 LPS
11 SPS

But you have sps and from the count they are likely doing OK.. so you are an SPS guy ... like it or not.

 

[Jimbhoy13]

I have a few. Love my elegance and my hammer.

 

[ss30]

I Iove all types of Euphyllia and I am looking at getting some Acans.

 

[See Gee Sea]

Voted other because just adding acans, duncans and just love the euphyllias, just not the price! Liking the other post suggestions.