Any coral suggestions for 20 gallon?

[Finnc]

Again just depends on the coral!

All right that's great! Thanks!

 

[KingTideCorals]

All right that's great! Thanks!

Feel free to PM me too and we can chat more offline! Let others chime in on the thread!

 

[sp1187]

soft corals: leather corals, xenia, green star polyps. zoas, mushrooms.
don't need high end lighting like the stony corals you are talking about.

leather corals, xenia, and green star polyps (gsp) will give you swaying movement.

red (easy) mushrooms

chili coral (difficult)

 

[Finnc]

Also how hard are hammer corals to keep? I also really like them.

soft corals: leather corals, xenia, green star polyps. zoas, mushrooms.
don't need high end lighting like the stony corals you are talking about.

leather corals, xenia, and green star polyps (gsp) will give you swaying movement.

red (easy) mushrooms

chili coral (difficult)

Also thank you a LOT for this because I just looked at these and I really like these

 

[sp1187]

so not to dissuade you from this awesome hobby, but the stony corals need more lighting then I think you could get within your budget.

 

[sp1187]

Also how hard are hammer corals to keep? I also really like them.


Also thank you a LOT for this because I just looked at these and I really like these

the stony corals you are asking about aren't difficult. but you do need good lighting for them to thrive.

 

[Finnc]

so not to dissuade you from this awesome hobby, but the stony corals need more lighting then I think you could get within your budget.

Oh well, I guess that's ok. Hopefully eventually I'll get some nice expensive lighting, but I love more basic corals anyway. Oh and also what would define a stony coral?

 

[sp1187]

Oh well, I guess that's ok. Hopefully eventually I'll get some nice expensive lighting, but I love more basic corals anyway. Oh and also what would define a stony coral?

basic definition: large polyp stony (lps) corals have a stony base they grow out of.
small polyp stony (sps) corals cover the stony base.
soft corals have no stony "skeleton" except for blue ridge coral.

take a look here
https://www.liveaquaria.com/category/597/coral

 

[sp1187]

one more thing.
most of the pricing on that link has not been updated.
figure double what's shown.

 

[Finnc]

one more thing.
most of the pricing on that link has not been updated.
figure double what's shown.

Wait a second... that means corals are usually 60-80 dollars? Wow. Actually, even though my account says my location is in the USA, I'm in Thailand which has some of the cheapest fish and corals that I've ever seen (common clowns are around 5-10 dollars), but I can't actually import/export live animals/plants, so I would have to get them here.

 

[sp1187]

Wait a second... that means corals are usually 60-80 dollars? Wow. Actually, even though my account says my location is in the USA, I'm in Thailand which has some of the cheapest fish and corals that I've ever seen (common clowns are around 5-10 dollars), but I can't actually import/export live animals/plants, so I would have to get them here.

no, I mean those are old prices. much higher here now.