Corals for Beginners

[Pamela]

The Best beginner coral ever:Starlet coral. I have had this one for over 18 years.

How beautiful! Thanks for sharing.

 

[Mini-30]

I have always liked the Toadstool as a beginner coral. They grow very quickly and reproduce readily. They do not require a lot of expensive lighting. Be warned though they can grow very large. My last toadstool was about 10" diameter at the cap and almost always dropped small "frags" of itself. I would mount them to disks and sell them back to the LFS. I have been looking around locally for another one but for some reason, the stores around here dont seem to carry them.

 

[Pamela]

I have always liked the Toadstool as a beginner coral. They grow very quickly and reproduce readily. They do not require a lot of expensive lighting. Be warned though they can grow very large. My last toadstool was about 10" diameter at the cap and almost always dropped small "frags" of itself. I would mount them to disks and sell them back to the LFS. I have been looking around locally for another one but for some reason, the stores around here dont seem to carry them.

Thanks! I'm so excited to find something dummy-proof and begin my journey into coral keeping!

 

[BoneXriffic]

Call and ask what they have in the way of cheap soft corals before making the trip...they usually have stuff like this.

 

[saltyfilmfolks]

The Best beginner coral ever:Starlet coral. I have had this one for over 18 years.

i need one of those. Caribbean I assume. Never see those here.

 

[scardall]

i need one of those. Caribbean I assume. Never see those here.

I rarely ever see these guys. They come in two other colors. Tan and olive green. They bud off the side and move up. The side feels like stony sand paper and the top is smooth like and soft. If it falls upside down it will form that shape for a while before it returns to what is normal for it. You are right it is mainly a Caribbean coral. It survived 3-4 days in a milky tank at up to 90 degrees during a hurricane and no power.

 

[saltyfilmfolks]

I rarely ever see these guys. They come in two other colors. Tan and olive green. They bud off the side and move up. The side feels like stony sand paper and the top is smooth like and soft. If it falls upside down it will form that shape for a while before it returns to what is normal for it. You are right it is mainly a Caribbean coral. It survived 3-4 days in a milky tank at up to 90 degrees during a hurricane and no power.

its probably also survived billions of years as it appears to be an ancient species of coral. Very very cool.
likely a missing link between modern coral and stromatolites. possibly and ancestor of the jellyfish.

 

[mikeabuoy]

If ur rich, I would say a scolymia