Beginner LPS

[nickp9054]

So I’m new to the hobby. Have a 30 gallon nano with only softies so far. I feel ready for some LPS. I was curious from your experience, what are some good beginner LPS? Something hardy and that would play well with softies. Thanks!

 

[Don_Jorge]

hardiest i know of is the frog spawn/hammer coral

 

[nickp9054]

Thanks, will look into

 

[Sam816]

duncans.

 

[nickp9054]

Anyone else?

 

[mich2599]

^^^ or a Duncan

 

[nickp9054]

Ok, great

 

[Gtinnel]

I agree with Duncans. They're really cheap too in case it doesn't work out well

 

[Don_Jorge]

thats a good point

 

[hds4216]

I agree with Duncans. You could also try acans, candy cane corals, trumpet coral, and hammers.

 

[Rmckoy]

Hammers are easy ,
Doesn’t really play nice with many neighbouring corals though .
placement and leaving room between others for sweeper tentacles .
After years and years , I still can’t keep Duncan’s .

lobo , open brain , favia , acan are all considerable easy given stable conditions .

 

[nickp9054]

Thanks so much for the input!

 

[Mark'os Reef]

Don't forget good old Green Star Polyps or Xenia. Both Easy and Visual.

 

[hds4216]

Don't forget good old Green Star Polyps or Xenia. Both Easy and Visual.

Both of those are softies, not LPS, but they are great for beginners as long as they're somewhat isolated.

 

[nickp9054]

Have both, looking for lps

 

[dedragon]

hammers, frogspawn, acans and bubble corals have been easy for me. Fleshy corals are pretty easy to care for as long as you are using rodi, good salt, medium power light and testing parameters.

 

[Rmckoy]

I have always had trouble keeping trumpet corals.

 

[LeftyReefer]

Duncan's are great. Very easy for beginners and are a cool coral. I love mine.
It's also a very fast grower for me. I picked mine up as a 5-7 head frag and now it has over 20 heads.

My torch has been bulletproof too, and my two hammers seem to be a tad less finicky than my frogspawn, but all have been pretty easy for this beginner.

I've had less luck with ricordeas though... mine stays small and shriveled. not sure why.

 

[nickp9054]

I’m keeping a ricordea Florida pretty well, though that’s a mushroom not lps

 

[FishNerd4Ever]

Here's my tank with softies and what I would call easy LPS: hammers, frog spawn, Duncan, trumpet, acans, favia, lobo and a leptastreastrea and leptoseris which are technically SPS but behave like a LPS and have relatively large polyps.