"Easy" Things You Can't Keep Alive

[Tahoe61]

Birdnest and Stylophora.....

 

[BoomCorals]

I can't keep acans or chalices. Every other LPS and SPS seem to do fine in system. No idea why

Do you spot feed them?

 

[tupes]

Mushrooms here

 

[Labridaedicted]

GSP no matter what tank there in the just end up dying[emoji25]

There was a time I wished for this problem

 

[Mr. Bill]

Any zoa over $5 PP.

For me, it's any zoa. Leathers, mushrooms, and even palys, no problem. Zoas melt within a month every time.

Goldfish

Unfortunately, a reef tank will never be mature enough for goldfish.

 

[Callok]

Torches.

Hammers, frogspawn grow like crazy, but ever torch I have does fine for about 1-2 months, then slowly opens up less and less, then dies.

 

[Grey Guy]

An ordinary mushroom.

I had a mushroom rock that I thought was completely dead and had nothing on it for years. When I put in back in the main tank, after a while a tiny mushroom began to grow. After about 6 months it is about 2 inches and little ones are starting to grow around it. I'm thinking of changing my name from Grey Guy to Mushroom Guy.

 

[ritter6788]

I never could keep Montipora digitata.

 

[Quah]

Elegance Corals - I've heard they're easy. I also can't keep Wall Hammer's alive.

 

[Michael Cronmiller]

Favia for me.... everything else thrives...war coral, hammers,duncans,Zoe's,torch, frogspawn,blasto,acans,etc., No prob....but favia does not do good in my tank

 

[A Toadstool Leather]

Frogspawn corals for me. Mine suddenly crashed after a year.

 

[mort]

Torches.

Hammers, frogspawn grow like crazy, but ever torch I have does fine for about 1-2 months, then slowly opens up less and less, then dies.

Same with me. They do fine and then one day you see the beginnings of brown jelly. I had eight heads that were pin head size, come in on some Vietnam zoas. They grew to a couple of heads each and were 6-7 inches across expanded before one by one they died over a few months. The hammers that I grew up from the same method are thriving.
My thinking is its flow related and torches get easily torn in higher flows causing infection, whereas hammers can take it better.


I also have problems with mushrooms but I think that's because my flow is far too string for them.

 

[csb123]

Do you spot feed them?

I've been doing that for the last couple months with my last acan and chalice. They are still hanging on,but still slowly receding.

 

[Katrina71]

Funny. I'm trying to kill one right now. :mad:

Show off

 

[AdamNC]

Acans, Frogspawn and Hammers. Funny though that my Duncan is doing better than ever. For being in an SPS tank that thing is resilient. Big blooms every day but the others mentioned just seem to slowly wither away.

 

[Milkmanskid]

I can't keep a Kenyan tree alive. Just kidding, those things are bomb proof.

I just killed one. Everything else was fine besides a couple sps but besides that, just the Kenya tree lol

 

[Quah]

I just killed one. Everything else was fine besides a couple sps but besides that, just the Kenya tree lol

My friend grows Acro's like mad but has a huge issue with GSP. He wants 1 GSP rock and it always dies. He has a lot of zoa and mushrooms in his tank just murders GSP.

 

[saltyfilmfolks]

Any zoa over $5 PP.

UPDATE!!!!!

Any zoa over $2 PP!!!

:mad:

 

[Streamline.by.design]

Birdsnests and torches. Both last 3 - 5 months and then suddenly/literally die over night.

 

[chris3del]

Zoas for some reason they get a brown algae on them and shrivel and die!!! Everything else in my tank is perfectly fine but not zoas