Coral suggestions welcome :)

Miemaes · Jul 23, 2023

Hey everyone

I have my first salt water aquarium up and running for roughly 2 months now. It’s a 6 gallon with a clown fish, turbo and astrea snail. Parameters are stable, no more algae and my corals seem to do well. I have a mushroom, candy cane, zoas, kenya and cabbage coral. I want to upgrade to a larger tank in the future, hence why I’ve tried keeping the different corals on an individual piece of stone. I was wondering if I can add anything to the larger rock where the cabbage coral is attached to? I was think a green leather toadstool… but any suggestion or ideas are welcome. Not sure what types of corals can be placed next to one another. It looks a little empty I think. Thank you!

Tim'sReef · Jul 23, 2023

Looking good! Toadstool or Duncan would be my choice. Easy to keep but also one of my favorite corals.

bushdoc · Jul 23, 2023

Your tank looks amazing good as for 2 months old baby!
Coral tend to grow, also you can still get into "ugly" phase with algae growth, so I would give it a break for few weeks at least.

girlsdad_AAA · Jul 23, 2023

What kind of lighting do you have? I like zoas and Florida ricordeas!

Rmckoy · Jul 23, 2023

The real question is what kind of coral do you like and do you have anything specific in mind ?

EricR · Jul 23, 2023

I like ricordea florida as easy and cool looking -- can't tell what your current mushroom is but it's something else.
*keep what YOU like but, that being said:

Tank is clean/new so maybe take things slow and let it settle in a bit before you go too crazy with additions.
*my 2 cents

Floyd- · Jul 24, 2023

Tim'sReef said:
Looking good! Toadstool or Duncan would be my choice. Easy to keep but also one of my favorite corals.

I second Duncans. They are easy and neat little corals.

Gumbies R Us · Jul 24, 2023

Miemaes said:
Hey everyone

I have my first salt water aquarium up and running for roughly 2 months now. It’s a 6 gallon with a clown fish, turbo and astrea snail. Parameters are stable, no more algae and my corals seem to do well. I have a mushroom, candy cane, zoas, kenya and cabbage coral. I want to upgrade to a larger tank in the future, hence why I’ve tried keeping the different corals on an individual piece of stone. I was wondering if I can add anything to the larger rock where the cabbage coral is attached to? I was think a green leather toadstool… but any suggestion or ideas are welcome. Not sure what types of corals can be placed next to one another. It looks a little empty I think. Thank you!

Agree with everyone on duncans! Also, your tank looks great for 2 months!

Miemaes · Jul 24, 2023

Tim'sReef said:
Looking good! Toadstool or Duncan would be my choice. Easy to keep but also one of my favorite corals.

Thank you!

I actually just got a sarcophyton which is a type of toadstool I believe?!

Tim'sReef said:
Looking good! Toadstool or Duncan would be my choice. Easy to keep but also one of my favorite corals.

Miemaes · Jul 24, 2023

bushdoc said:
Your tank looks amazing good as for 2 months old baby!
Coral tend to grow, also you can still get into "ugly" phase with algae growth, so I would give it a break for few weeks at least.

Thx! Really nice to hear that I had that ugly algae fase quite quickly and it vanished pretty fast too. I’ve actually been supplementing my snails with algae based pellets as I got worried they might have too little to eat.

Miemaes · Jul 24, 2023

girlsdad_AAA said:
What kind of lighting do you have? I like zoas and Florida ricordeas!

I got this light. Pretty basic but i feel it’s enough for the size tank I have. I run it mostly on the blue light and will occasionally switch it to white for an hour or two. I’ll need to look those Florida ricordeas up! thx!

Miemaes · Jul 24, 2023

Rmckoy said:
The real question is what kind of coral do you like and do you have anything specific in mind ?

Pfff too many I decided to go with ‘what can I easily keep as a beginner’… more then really going for what I would consider my dream set up. Can corals from the same family be kept next to one another… or does that really depend on the type.

Miemaes · Jul 24, 2023

EricR said:
I like ricordea florida as easy and cool looking -- can't tell what your current mushroom is but it's something else.
*keep what YOU like but, that being said:

Tank is clean/new so maybe take things slow and let it settle in a bit before you go too crazy with additions.
*my 2 cents

My mushroom looks bright green under the blue light… not sure what the exact name is. I’ll definitely look into the ricordea’s too. They look super neat! I know I’ve started to add corals kinda quickly I had a huge algae bloom pretty fast and it also vanished pretty quick. I am strict with my light schedule (set to 10h) and weekly 20% water changes. For now everything looks good and I even have to feed my snails a bit more because I have almost no algae. I also supplement my tank twice a week with zooplankton.

Miemaes · Jul 24, 2023

Floyd- said:
I second Duncans. They are easy and neat little corals.

Thanks for the advice!

Miemaes · Jul 24, 2023

Gumbies R Us said:
Agree with everyone on duncans! Also, your tank looks great for 2 months!

Thanks so much. Makes me genuinely happy

Rmckoy · Jul 24, 2023

Miemaes said:
Pfff too many I decided to go with ‘what can I easily keep as a beginner’… more then really going for what I would consider my dream set up. Can corals from the same family be kept next to one another… or does that really depend on the type.

Generally speaking …
Yes
Foe example .
Hammers . Torches , can all touch others the same .
But need distance away from other corals

Miemaes · Jul 24, 2023

Rmckoy said:
Generally speaking …
Yes
Foe example .
Hammers . Torches , can all touch others the same .
But need distance away from other corals

Cool! I’ll try to apply this to in my nano tank.

Kasrift · Jul 24, 2023

Duncan's are a good call as people mentioned. Other shrooms also always work, I'd look into a St Thomas Mushroom since they look like anemones and don't wander like they do.

Rmckoy · Jul 24, 2023

Miemaes said:
Cool! I’ll try to apply this to in my nano tank.

That being said you might find some corals that your system will just have no luck keeping .

I still can’t keep torches , zoas , trumpets alive .
But never had trouble keeping hammers . Palys and some sps

Outlaw Corals · Jul 24, 2023

Miemaes said:
Hey everyone

I have my first salt water aquarium up and running for roughly 2 months now. It’s a 6 gallon with a clown fish, turbo and astrea snail. Parameters are stable, no more algae and my corals seem to do well. I have a mushroom, candy cane, zoas, kenya and cabbage coral. I want to upgrade to a larger tank in the future, hence why I’ve tried keeping the different corals on an individual piece of stone. I was wondering if I can add anything to the larger rock where the cabbage coral is attached to? I was think a green leather toadstool… but any suggestion or ideas are welcome. Not sure what types of corals can be placed next to one another. It looks a little empty I think. Thank you!

Personally i don’t like how that look’s all spread out like that, i would break up that big rock into rubble and make a nice rock pile and add a few head’s of long tentacle duncan and xenia to get some movement going, i would add a rock flower nem and some hermit crabs, snails. Small cleaner shrimp