What's the FASTEST and EASIEST growing SPS Corals in your tank?

[revhtree]

When it comes to coral growth, fast and easy are two adjectives we like to hear! Those two words can't always go together when it comes to SPS corals but it can be the case with certain corals. So let's talk about the sps corals in your tank that grow fast and easy!

What's the FASTEST and EASIEST growing SPS Corals in your tank? Name them all!

image via @Reefiness

 

[LiveFreeAndReef]

green pocillopora, the only way I've found to kill it is to keep a bi-color blenny with it (apparently the polyps are delicious)

 

[jfoahs04]

It's a tossup between my birdsnet and a monti digitata frag. The digi was glued horizontally 2 months ago and quickly began encrusting on the rock and growing one vertical branch. Now the tip is growing out too. The birdsnest is growing incredibly fast toward the powerhead and the light (up and out).

I just added a bali green slimer. I have set an alert to photograph it once per month from the same angle on the same day.

 

[fishface NJ]

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Bird nests
Garf Bonsai
Stylo
PC Rainbow
Digi
Tricolor Valida

 

[shandoee]

Birdsnest and stylophora for me!

 

[BanjoBandito]

I've always had good luck with leptoseris....kinda a set it and forget it coral for me. I love their colors too.

 

[Gtinnel]

Birdsnest for me, although my monti digi and monti caps are easy they don't grow as quickly as my birdsnest.

Ignore my dirty glass the scrapper didn't fit between the coral and the glass.

 

[WheatToast]

I don’t have any SPS, but Branching coralline algae looks similar and I have found it to be quite easy to keep alive:

Plating coralline algae also doesn’t seem too hard to maintain (I have never kept it, though), but it never seems to be available anywhere:

 

[shakacuz]

All of my corals are slow in growth, but the one that has shown the most growth has been my bc aquaticman that i added not too long ago to my tank. has already started tabling more so than my garf bonsai that has been in my tank for months!

 

[ProxyAquarist]

I have no SPS at all.

Maybe if I am good this year Santa will deliver some.

Merry XMAS to those who celebrate, and a great 2022 to all !
jim

 

[((FORDTECH))]

Bali green slimmer. I cut about 20 frag’s from it a month

 

[Robinson]

Montipora wise- Aquaman, Pokerstar, Seasons Heavens, all JF montis

Acroporas- RRC Pink Cadillac and Tierra de Fuego

 

[OrchidMiss]

Bird nests​

Garf Bonsai​

Stylo
PC Rainbow
Digi
Tricolor Valida

This makes me happy! I just bought a Garf bonsai!
I also have a few different birds nests that have really taken off! Stylos too.

 

[smol_reef]

Monti caps and green poci

 

[nereefpat]

Monti cap
Green slimer
Hollywood stunner (if that counts?)

 

[little_sardines]

Definitely my monti caps, and im always having to kill back my encrusters like leptoseris and pavona too.

 

[alain Bouchard]

birdnest, monti caps, leptos, pocillopra

 

[jcolliii]

Montiporas. I used to grow green digitata under compact fluorescents! Also, Anacropora grows like a weed in my system.

 

[SuncrestReef]

Here are some growth photos I was tracking in 2018-2019:

Green Slimer:

Stag:

 

[CanuckReefer]

I don’t have any SPS, but Branching coralline algae looks similar and I have found it to be quite easy to keep alive:

Plating coralline algae also doesn’t seem too hard to maintain (I have never kept it, though), but it never seems to be available anywhere:

This is awesome. Wish I could find it somewhere here...although my bet says it'd be decimated by my two urchins? Hard to find Pocillopora here as well for some reason.