Coral regrets that I have made!

caudill187 · Mar 18, 2012

lps1212 said:
My biggest regret was gettin a haddoni carpet which ended up eating about 5 of my fish before I ended up gettin rid of it

Wow

SAZAMA · Mar 19, 2012

mixing softies and hard corals. still find anthelia now and again

illcssd · Mar 19, 2012

Xenia. Took over my tank; but I found a marbled starfish that loved to eat xenia. I don't know if he ate other corals, or just xenia, as I would put him in, let him decimate the population of xenia, and throw him in the sump for a month or so. It was easy because I'd put him right on top of the xenia, and he'd go to town. I still have him hanging out in the sump.

emerald525 · Mar 19, 2012

illcssd said:
Xenia. Took over my tank; but I found a marbled starfish that loved to eat xenia. I don't know if he ate other corals, or just xenia, as I would put him in, let him decimate the population of xenia, and throw him in the sump for a month or so. It was easy because I'd put him right on top of the xenia, and he'd go to town. I still have him hanging out in the sump.

I never heard of them eating xenia. I always thought they were reef safe. If you could breed that hopefully selective xenia eater you could make a mint!

Many reefers have problems with overgrown xenia.

_sludgefactory · Mar 19, 2012

I've done the gsp a while ago, but i always kept them on their own rock out on the sand bed. Gave them away because i was tired of them, there is still a few on one of my croceas but they don't spread at all.
Eradicated all of my colt coral a long time ago, it was on the same rock as the gsp. They only thing i have left that i hate is the stupid red mushrooms that I've had for years. I've managed to keep them segregated by surrounding them with zoas so they stay away from my sps. I boiled them completely off of one half of a zoa rock. I still get the stray floater ever now and again. Occasionally they actually stick, but i bought a hypodermic needle to shoot them full of vinegar! The rest of my shrooms grow pretty slowly. Oh and i have a ugly brown encrusting monti that i bought a while ago that keeps getting close by a couple acros that i really like. I scrape it back when it gets to out off hand.
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TwoTables · Apr 21, 2012

I read this thread and I just want to ask what is the learning curve then? All the corals everyone hates are what's out there and is inexpensive to start with. Of course, no one at the fish store tells anybody this plumb knowledge and I have steadily been amassing good information sites on the internet.. and finding good resource books. Its not easy, to the complete beginner, you know to get the chemistry right only to find out: 'HEY: you suck at picking out corals AND fish'..

Kano · Apr 21, 2012

Most of the corals people listed here you probably don't want to spend money on (or get for free). They look nice at first but as your tank survives and nothing crashes you still have these invasive corals that are very difficult to fully remove. If you want to do an SPS tank then start with "easier" SPS. Any SPS guy can give you some ideas that won't break your budget. If it's an LPS tank most corals are pretty hardy. Just research what they like, flow, trace elements, feeding if any, and start slow. If you can keep a kenya tree you can probably keep acans and other lps. LFS will try and sell you anything they can and they make a lot of money from the noobie items. Be a noobie without buying the kenya trees (which i like :/ ) and xenia, etc. and you'll be fine. Blue anthelia was one of the worst things I've added. Xenia a close second. Luckily my powder brown decided he hates it and tears it apart so I got rid of it that way. Kenya trees and mushrooms haven't causes me a lot of issues but that's just me. Aiptasia is by far the worst thing I got on accident before I knew how hard it was to remove once introduced.

_sludgefactory · Apr 21, 2012

Just because someone said they wishes they didn't put something in their tank doesn't mean you shouldn't. If you like something get it. Just do some research before you put something in. Pretty much what's been listed so far in this thread is most of the true problem corals. Any coral can turn into a weed though if it's encroaching on a near by coral that you like more.

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Toomnymods · Apr 21, 2012

i regret putting any lps into my tank, i thought the sand looked bare and needed some color.. since adding that my phosphates have been thru the roof trying to feed the things enough to keep them happy. doesnt help much they dont eat 90% of what i try to feed them my wrasses seem to find it before the lps tentacles can even grab it. I've given up trying to feed them, survival of the fittest if they cant get the nutrition from the water colomn i guess they can die.. i'm just tired of sacrificing sps color and growth for lps that is too stupid to feed.

TwoTables · Apr 21, 2012

Well, I've been through the atipasia nightmare, and learned all about peppermint shrimp... and those fun little starfish that seem to multiply overnight... humm... and ... learned how to dip my coral for hitchhikers... and have not lost anything except clean up crew due to other members being cannibals... and a shrimp molting right on top of some button polyps.. however, I have to say, I'm guilty of kenya tree and green star. Oh boy and the more I read, the worse I feel. I just now got to understanding most chemistry, and keeping on top of things without staying up to my pits in my tank..

_sludgefactory · Apr 22, 2012

Toomnymods said:
i regret putting any lps into my tank, i thought the sand looked bare and needed some color.. since adding that my phosphates have been thru the roof trying to feed the things enough to keep them happy. doesnt help much they dont eat 90% of what i try to feed them my wrasses seem to find it before the lps tentacles can even grab it. I've given up trying to feed them, survival of the fittest if they cant get the nutrition from the water colomn i guess they can die.. i'm just tired of sacrificing sps color and growth for lps that is too stupid to feed.

U don't have to feed lps.

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_sludgefactory · Apr 22, 2012

TwoTables said:
Well, I've been through the atipasia nightmare, and learned all about peppermint shrimp... and those fun little starfish that seem to multiply overnight... humm... and ... learned how to dip my coral for hitchhikers... and have not lost anything except clean up crew due to other members being cannibals... and a shrimp molting right on top of some button polyps.. however, I have to say, I'm guilty of kenya tree and green star. Oh boy and the more I read, the worse I feel. I just now got to understanding most chemistry, and keeping on top of things without staying up to my pits in my tank..

U can do green stars easily. Just isolate them on their own rock away from anything the can grow on. Then all u have to do is trim them every once in a while. I had them for the longest time. Started out on a small rock a few inches around. A little island on the sand bed. I kept adding more rocks to it till it was huge. Then I'd cut it and give it away and add new rocks and cut etc... I just got sick of it and wanted to keep different stuff so i ended up giving the whole thing away. One of my crocea clams is actually still covered in green stars cause it used to be part of the island.

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