What coral do you hate?
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Man there's a lot of hate here.... 
Daniel@R2R
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Pocillopora. The darn stuff spawns like crazy!!
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Green star polyps...Xenia...cabbage leathers.
KingBlingTX
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I have to much hate for green hair algae to divert any of that disdain towards a coral!
Whoa that's raw... Scolys will always have their place IMO... Have you ever fed one? They're like a giant Venus Fly Trap
Everybody is entitled to their own opinion though, I won't judge
Hi yep fed loads and seen hundreds in my time running a shop but never had the interest in keeping them at home. I guess I was lucky in that I got to keep most things, if only for a little while, and get the excitement that goes with it and then the "oh is that all it does", without having to buy them. You also see the latest crazes come through and then how fickle people are when their popularity wains.
I'm also a bit different to the norm in that my ideal tank would only have 4-5 corals but multiple large colonies of them repeated, as I prefer a natural look to the (ducks for cover) "whack the blue's up sweet shop" look. But you can probably rule my opinion out as I have different tastes to pretty much everyone, for example give me a scopas over a gem, a rusty over a flame angel or a sixline over a feminus wrasse.
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The plethora of corals I cannot keep haha
Quah
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Blue clove polyps - they are the bane of my existence and have carried over into every tank rebuild I've done. I started giving rocks of it away and everyone who has received a rock always comments "These just aren't growing for me, do they look healthy?" I'll go check out these various rocks and not a single blue clove polyp has moved and they've stayed fluffy and blue and look awesome. The conversation usually ends "I like them, I just wish they grew more." and I usually respond "When they start growing you might change your mind" Mic drop - my blue clove polyp story is done!
Anything that's brown and stays brown when the blues are on....and "aquarists" who forgot what the ocean is full of that say anything that's not brown and boring isn't natural.
Bloooaaaahh!!! Yuck!
I don't actually hate people, of course, just get annoyed.
Ah, yes! Much better! Where is this perpetually honeymooning guy, anyways? Did he eat his wedding cake?
Bloooaaaahh!!! Yuck!
I don't actually hate people, of course, just get annoyed.
Ah, yes! Much better! Where is this perpetually honeymooning guy, anyways? Did he eat his wedding cake?
DRoth335
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Hate might be a strong word but I have a strong dislike for monti orange cap in one tank ATM as it is extremely invasive, tries to overgrow its much more valued (by me!) neighbors and extremely difficult to eradicate - every little piece seems that gets loose when chopping it out seems to grow into another pest. Creates a lot of maintenance work. This same feeling applies to virtually every encrusting monti I've met and the reason I won't have them any longer.
