What coral are you excited about potentially adding this year?

Wasabiroot · Feb 3, 2022

We all have that one coral that has lately caught their eye, whether as a future planned acquisition or a photo that made you look twice and wonder how you can incorporate that coral into your ecosystem.

For me, I want to attempt a classic easy acro once my mixed reef starts taking off - Garf Bonsai or Oregon Tort. What's yours? Feel free to include a pic if you'd like and share why.

CaffeinatedReefer · Feb 3, 2022

Ooooohh you’ve got my vote for the garf! One of my all time favorites. I’m on a mushroom kick right now and I can’t explain it. Looking for all the funky colors and textures this year!

muzikalmatt · Feb 3, 2022

I'm definitely looking to add more SPS. The tank just passed its 3rd birthday and is pretty stable. I have a few easier SPS that are doing well: stylophora, monti cap, and green slimer. I'm thinking about trying a tort or a milli. I love the shaggy SPS.

Wasabiroot · Feb 3, 2022

muzikalmatt said:
I'm definitely looking to add more SPS. The tank just passed its 3rd birthday and is pretty stable. I have a few easier SPS that are doing well: stylophora, monti cap, and green slimer. I'm thinking about telling trying a tort or a milli. I love the shaggy SPS.

Agree. For sure one day I will have some hairy milli colonies

Wasabiroot · Feb 3, 2022

CaffeinatedReefer said:
Ooooohh you’ve got my vote for the garf! One of my all time favorites. I’m on a mushroom kick right now and I can’t explain it. Looking for all the funky colors and textures this year!

Shrooms are cool!

workhz · Feb 3, 2022

I dunno. My current tank is only 10 months old and I feel like I’m out of space already. I don’t recall buying that much but everywhere I look I keep thinking there isn’t space. Corals trend to grow.

Acros · Feb 3, 2022

Tyree Pink Lemonade.

I am looking forward to adding this one in the summer (maybe a couple more). I have pink, green, blue, purple and orange in the tank. A true yellow should add some pop.

Wasabiroot · Feb 4, 2022

Keep em coming. ..bump. what else do you have your eyes on people?

E.J. · Feb 4, 2022

My 120 is soft coral dominated with a few lps and hardy sps mixed in. The leathers and cespitularia are quite big, ranging from 18 - 20", but there is a lot of real estate left to be filled in with low lying coral, and some verticality as my rockscape is minimal and barely goes past the 1/3 of the tank's height. So, I'm thinking some palys, mushrooms, and rock anemones to for the low lying coral, and some gorgonians for some tall shapes.

I've been reefing since 1999, and have tried almost everything, but at this stage I'm drawn to movement and texture, and would like to see just how colorful I can make a soft coral dominated reef.

Wasabiroot · Feb 4, 2022

E.J. said:
My 120 is soft coral dominated with a few lps and hardy sps mixed in. The leathers and cespitularia are quite big, ranging from 18 - 20", but there is a lot of real estate left to be filled in with low lying coral, and some verticality as my rockscape is minimal and barely goes past the 1/3 of the tank's height. So, I'm thinking some palys, mushrooms, and rock anemones to for the low lying coral, and some gorgonians for some tall shapes.

I've been reefing since 1999, and have tried almost everything, but at this stage I'm drawn to movement and texture, and would like to see just how colorful I can make a soft coral dominated reef.

Love it. Gorgonians are criminally underrated, and usually cheap as chips to boot.

fish farmer · Feb 4, 2022

Low light encrusters. I'm having success with a cyphastrea and been looking at chalice's.

design.maddie · Feb 4, 2022

I plan on learning about all the sticks. I have a really good grasp of Montipora but near 0 for any millies or acros. I purchased one of those Tunze Wall Rocks, should be in any day now. I want to cover it with sticks. I will have it in an area that should be around +250PAR. Now that I think about it, I don't even know enough to know what is out there. Fun and exciting times 2022 will be a very good year.

jpark457 · Feb 4, 2022

fish farmer said:
Low light encrusters. I'm having success with a cyphastrea and been looking at chalice's.

That’s awesome! I’m in the same boat but my success is w a Hollywood stunner chalice and was looking to try cyphastrea, may be a birds nest if that goes well. The chalice so far has been at least as easy to care for as my soft corals, doubled in size over a little less than 6 months

fish farmer · Feb 4, 2022

jpark457 said:
That’s awesome! I’m in the same boat but my success is w a Hollywood stunner chalice and was looking to try cyphastrea, may be a birds nest if that goes well. The chalice so far has been at least as easy to care for as my soft corals, doubled in size over a little less than 6 months

I got a meteor shower cyphastrea, I put it on a rock on the bottom where my mushrooms didn't cover and it has done well over growing the original frag. It is wimpy though, I have to kill mushrooms that touch it, but it still grows back. I even ticked it off with a shot of vinegar when I was dealing with the shrooms, though I was going to lose much of the frag, grew back pretty quick.

Karen00 · Feb 4, 2022

I want to try acros so my clown goby has a place to hang out. He's been trying to get snugly with my Corky Sea Finger gorg but it's not working out so well. LOL. Having said that I don't know if I'm attempting a "run before I can walk" manoeuvre.

loganzielke · Feb 4, 2022

Not a coral but this anemone, it comes Tuesday and I can’t wait

MNFish · Feb 4, 2022

Normally I am more of a bargain bin shopper but just bought this one because I was blown away by it.

MNFish · Feb 4, 2022

Wasabiroot said:
We all have that one coral that has lately caught their eye, whether as a future planned acquisition or a photo that made you look twice and wonder how you can incorporate that coral into your ecosystem.

For me, I want to attempt a classic easy acro once my mixed reef starts taking off - Garf Bonsai or Oregon Tort. What's yours? Feel free to include a pic if you'd like and share why.

I love my Oregon Tort, grows very slow but am always blown away by the blue.