I'm guessing most of us started with easy fast growing corals to get going before eventually moving on to the more difficult stuff. The "beginner corals" are great for getting started. Usually tough and fast growing meaning you can get sopme success and know you're on the right track before starting on the more difficult stuff. However being fast growing and tough beginner corals can become a weed.
So my question is what was the fate of your first corals? Sold? Left on an island? Exterminated?
Personally I started with a rock of GSP and a beginners pack that contained Bob Marley zoas, Pandora zoas, yellow parazoanthids, pulsing xenia, and another frag of GSP. And their fates are as follows:
So my question is what was the fate of your first corals? Sold? Left on an island? Exterminated?
Personally I started with a rock of GSP and a beginners pack that contained Bob Marley zoas, Pandora zoas, yellow parazoanthids, pulsing xenia, and another frag of GSP. And their fates are as follows:
- Bob Marley: killed in accidental friendly fire intended for aiptasia.
- Pandora:
Mined to destruction by greedy humans!!After becoming a uncontrollable weed it was collected and given to my butterfly and angels in my FOWLR. - Yellow parazoanthids: After growing over a giant rock in the middle of my tank I decided they were ugly and sold the rock to an LFS for $10.
- Pulsing xenia: Learned the hard way that red fuzzy hermits are not reef safe.
- GSP frag: sold immediately for another $10.
- As for the main rock of GSP may I present GSP monster: