Do you have a particular coral you cannot keep?

[Dburr1014]

I thought it was birds nest.
I got a couple frags last year and all died but one. It grew fast, really fast. It was about a baseball size. Then it started to stn. About half of it died and then stopped. Now it's growing again.... I'm so confused.

 

[MrGisonni]

This thread goes right along with another about secrets to a successful reef. There are some corals all have issues with...elegance corals for example for decades now, and some that we watch others grow successfully but we can't keep in our systems. Accepting that fact and finding our own sweet spot is important. Or you can change things up a bit and set up another tank with a completely different plan, strategy and equipment designed specifically for those trouble corals, if you have the time, money and space.

 

[TheDuude]

This thread goes right along with another about secrets to a successful reef. There are some corals all have issues with...elegance corals for example for decades now, and some that we watch others grow successfully but we can't keep in our systems. Accepting that fact and finding our own sweet spot is important. Or you can change things up a bit and set up another tank with a completely different plan, strategy and equipment designed specifically for those trouble corals, if you have the time, money and space.

I hope that as biome testing advances we can learn why some corals struggle in our tanks

 

[twentyleagues]

blastos. Some never even opened tried a few times. Yet had all sorts of other lps in the tank doing great.