Coral pack or individual coral(s)

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When I add my first coral(s) is it best to start with just one or two corals or it better to purchase a coral pack with 4 or five corals?
 
Depends on how bad you want the corals. [emoji1]

No, really it won't change your parameters too much right away. But make sure they are all in line before you add them and check them again in a few days and every couple days after. That way if they start sucking up calcium or other things, you can do a quick wc to bring it back in line. You may not notice any difference for quite some time and even after adding lots of corals.
 
A good coral pack often gives you good bang for your buck and with luck, something will flourish.

If you have a good LFS, they can guide you into appropriate corals for your system and skill level.
 
If you like all 4 corals I say go with the pack!
 
When I set up my first tank after a tester coral I got locally to make sure everything was ok, I bought a 20 frag pack pretty cheap. It got may tank full and everything went fine. I did regret it a year or two later, some of them turned out to be awesome, most were kinda meh. I don't really have an outlet for things so I wound up with a lot of corals that I didn't really "love". So there was no negative with adding them in that kind of volume, but in hindsight I wish I had only picked things I really liked.
 
@bigroost I agree 100% I am taking my additions very slow and making sure everything I add is something i really want and for specific reasons want. So i can look in there and be like "Yeah, thats awesome!" haha
 
I have a small 30 gallon tank (20 gallon display) so every piece counts. I would not let someone pick random corals for me. I really do not get random frag packs, but that is only my opinion. I guess if I had a very large tank, though, something like this could be useful and less expensive.
 

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