What's the FIRST coral you ever bought?

[ZoWhat]

What's the FIRST coral you ever bought?

Oh my gosh,, for me,, we're talking 2007.... but I'm pretty sure it was Yellow Polyps

For some reason everyone thinks they're invasive and ugly and only one step above Aiptasia.... but I always thought they were pretty cool and add color to your tank.

You never see these for sale anymore

Reclassify them as a zoa and give them a cool marketing name like Yellow Jacket Stingers and they'd probably sell for $15/polyp. Lol

 

[revhtree]

What's the FIRST coral you ever bought?

Oh my gosh,, for me,, we're talking 2007.... but I'm pretty sure it was Yellow Polyps

For some reason everyone thinks they're invasive and ugly and only one step above Aiptasia.... but I always thought they were pretty cool and add color to your tank.

You never see these for sale anymore

Totally forgot about yellow polyps! Blast from the past. Come to think of it, you’re right, I never see it for sale anywhere.

 

[LiveFreeAndReef]

A kenya tree! Good first coral, good coral to get out of your tank when you get your second coral haha

 

[ZoWhat]

Totally forgot about yellow polyps! Blast from the past. Come to think of it, you’re right, I never see it for sale anywhere.

Total trip down memory lane

I'm actually on Google right now seeing where I can buy some!

 

[LiveFreeAndReef]

Total trip down memory lane

I'm actually on Google right now seeing where I can buy some!

Tidal Gardens has one left!

 

[Chrisv.]

I think my first was a tiny frag of devil's hand leather. I was like 13 (1996?) Anyway, it was brown but it was healthy and grew reasonably quickly since I had THREE normal output fluorescent tubes lighting the tank!

 

[revhtree]

Mine was probably Kenya tree. It was Kenya, yellow polyps and Xenia for me early,

 

[ZoWhat]

I think my first was a tiny frag of devil's hand leather. I was like 13 (1996?) Anyway, it was brown but it was healthy and grew reasonably quickly since I had THREE normal output fluorescent tubes lighting the tank!

Omg.... im totally trippin ... do you remember Compact Fluorescents? I think that was my first light. One white, one blue CF bulb

 

[Hud]

A green hammer coral

 

[Gtinnel]

In my current tank it was stupidly a kenya tree. If you mean first coral ever it would've been either xenia/gsp/bubble coral, I don't remember which since it was over 20 years ago. I got all of them at about the same time.

 

[Chrisv.]

Omg.... im totally trippin ... do you remember Compact Fluorescents? I think that was my first light. One white, one blue CF bulb

Oh heck yes. I did normal output fl, power compacts, vho fl, then iwaki (?) Halide which was like 6500k, then ushio 10k, then radium 20k, then a kessil /AI LEDs. It cracks me up to see everyone complaining about blue LED tanks. 15 years ago everyone was bellyaching about radium bulbs making the tank look like it was full of Windex. Nothing really changes. Out of all of those lights I do think radiums are at the top of my list...but I did get slightly faster sps growth with 10k+vho actinic.

 

[revhtree]

Omg.... im totally trippin ... do you remember Compact Fluorescents? I think that was my first light. One white, one blue CF bulb

Haha yes of course!!

 

[ZoWhat]

Oh heck yes. I did normal output fl, power compacts, vho fl, then iwaki (?) Halide which was like 6500k, then ushio 10k, then radium 20k, then a kessil /AI LEDs. It cracks me up to see everyone complaining about blue LED tanks. 15 years ago everyone was bellyaching about radium bulbs making the tank look like it was full of Windex. Nothing really changes. Out of all of those lights I do think radiums are at the top of my list...but I did get slightly faster sps growth with 10k+vho actinic.

I can't believe I found a pic of it online!!!!
My first light.... circa 2007

 

[Idech]

Bali green slimer. No, it didn’t last long.

 

[gfox]

Red Mushroom in 2005 and still have it

 

[Gtinnel]

When I first setup my current tank 2.5 years ago I tried using some ancient PC flourescent bulbs I had kept in storage from when I had tanks before.

 

[littlebeard]

Green Star polyp. Did great for about 2 years, then slowly faded away. Probably a blessing since it reached my main rock wall back in the day.

 

[revhtree]

I can't believe I found a pic of it online!!!!
My first light.... circa 2007

That was a nice one! Lol!

 

[ZoWhat]

That was a nice one! Lol!

Only the BEST in 1990s technology for me, sir

 

[PandorasChalk]

Brown Warlock Zoa heads for 10 dollars. In the past two months they have doubled in polyps and size!

(First bought)

(2 Months later)

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