Meat coral discussion

[ReeferBill]

So my lfs has a beautiful show piece meat coral. Red with blue and green stripes. They have had it for a while. Asking $650 so it’s pricy. My question is are they easy or hard to keep? I have lots of sps and lps in my tank. Zoas do ok but not great. Had an acan that just slowly receded and died. But my torches, favias, digi, trumpets all grow amazing. Any advice on if I should take the leap or are these fickle corals. Thanks all.

 

[MERKEY]

I've noticed mine are sensitive to lower mag and po02/n03 swings.

Other than that I feed my fish over them so the smaller particles drop down to them so they get a little bit everyday.

 

[BASEDREEFER]

They tend to be sensitive coral . hard , not really , but sensitive . They don’t like high par and they don’t like high flow if you can grow sps you should be fine but make sure you have an area in the tank where it won’t get hit with high flow it will rip them off there skeleton. They are kinda like acans they love to be spot fed.

if you do purchase one ask to check the coral as some can develop bacterial infections and they start to separate from the tissue .

 

[DatsoonDave]

Man these are frustrating corals at times. Had one look perfect for a year, and started to show bone/skeleton one day. Same spot. 2 part solutions, that has mg. Mg has dipped below the desired mark on occasion. I'm starting to think that something started nipping at it. Acans and meat corals have been my nemesis on many occasions. I'm intermediate I'd say, but I guess even professionals have issues with corals sometimes. Maybe I am wrong.

 

[jabberwock]

So my lfs has a beautiful show piece meat coral. Red with blue and green stripes. They have had it for a while. Asking $650 so it’s pricy. My question is are they easy or hard to keep? I have lots of sps and lps in my tank. Zoas do ok but not great. Had an acan that just slowly receded and died. But my torches, favias, digi, trumpets all grow amazing. Any advice on if I should take the leap or are these fickle corals. Thanks all.

I have bought cars for less than that.

 

[DatsoonDave]

I would keep it on the sand in a lower flow if possible. If it's in your budget, and you have done well with others of similar species, like others have said, I don't think they're super difficult to keep. I think I may have just had a parameter swing, or something may have messed with it. Halloween hermit (?) maybe. I'm still trying to figure out some of my Acans. I may have them at a par level that's too high. One tank I have they do well, with strong flow, but not in a lower flow area. Lots of trial and error I guess with corals at times