Beginner corals

[Justyn kot]

Looking to put some corals in my 2 month old tank, what are the best beginner corals?

 

[Anthony Kochevar]

You cannot go wrong with mushroom corals. Very hardy and quite colorful.

 

[bw777]

Duncans are good beginner corals

 

[cloak]

Leather corals such as Sarcophyton, Sinularia, Lobophytum etc are pretty durable. Even some of the LPS corals such as a Euphyllia, Micromussa & Favia can be pretty forgiving as well. The links below might help.

https://www.liveaquaria.com/categor...s?c=597+2856&s=ts&start=1&page_num=1&count=24

http://www.reefkeeping.com/issues/2004-05/rhf/index.php

 

[Benga]

I started with Ricordea, Duncan, and Birdsnest. Ricordea is splitting into two right now and the Duncan is getting 5 new heads at once and the Birdsnest is growing nice and good. My tank is only 6 months old and I got the corals at around 3 months.

 

[nereefpat]

The easiest stony (true) corals are the branching LPS. This includes: candycanes, branching hammer (not wall hammer), duncans, etc. Other LPS like favia/favites/goneastrea and acans are also pretty forgiving.

 

[Jesterrace]

Leather corals such as Sarcophyton, Sinularia, Lobophytum etc are pretty durable. Even some of the LPS corals such as a Euphyllia, Micromussa & Favia can be pretty forgiving as well. The links below might help.

https://www.liveaquaria.com/categor...s?c=597+2856&s=ts&start=1&page_num=1&count=24

http://www.reefkeeping.com/issues/2004-05/rhf/index.php

Agreed, I can't grow Zoas, Mushrooms, etc (they all died) but my Euphyllia Frags (ie Frogspawn and Hammer) have been through a tank transfer, a major rock re-arrangement, a lighting upgrade (going from primarily white to blue) and are currently doing well with a fair bit of green hair algae on the rock. Now I am getting ready to subject the poor things to a Coral Beauty Dwarf Angel. We shall see how it goes. Either way all I do is the basics for maintaining a tank plus 2 small feedings a day of Frozen Reef Frenzy and they seem to do well.