What Coral Do You Most Regret Adding to Your System?

[Kunzman]

Hairy mushrooms immediately come to mind!

 

[mcarroll]

Every beginner coral, but especially mushrooms.

(An article I wrote: Beginner Corals – The Basics of Reef Success)

 

[CindyKz]

Green pocillopora. Hands down.

Pretty when you have just one piece, but let it get stressed. The polyps bail out and before you know its everywhere.

 

[TheEngineer]

Texas trash palys.

 

[Cherub]

my orange mandarin zoas. after a month little cloves started appearing on the frag. now they're on the rock...

 

[Jet915]

Those ugly green palys....

 

[Halal Hotdog]

For the ones that said kenya tree. Wouldn't scissors and 5 minutes take care of everything? I have some in my tank, and if one attaches where I don't want it, I just take the good old scissors to it.

 

[Ocean Lotion]

MUSHROOMS! yesterday I spent I hours tearing down my 75 and put what I did not sell in my 30. The process was extended because I had to eliminate hundreds of sbrooms. They were great for years but once the population hits 100 their reproduction rate is alarming. Killed everything the touch except for frogspawn.

 

[nickkohrn]

Montipora Spongodes.
I let it spread on my bare bottom and it eventually grew up the front display panel.
Tank is shut down but that skeletal remains is still stuck on the glass and is permanent now!

Wow, that sounds like it would be a real pain to deal with!

 

[nickkohrn]

MUSHROOMS! yesterday I spent I hours tearing down my 75 and put what I did not sell in my 30. The process was extended because I had to eliminate hundreds of sbrooms. They were great for years but once the population hits 100 their reproduction rate is alarming. Killed everything the touch except for frogspawn.

That sounds like a monstrous headache.

 

[ectoaesthetics]

This is a great cautionary thread lol.

Xenia. Will never put this in another tank unless it is isolated. You can pull pieces of it out, which is nice, but it is still a pain.

 

[pecan2phat]

Wow, that sounds like it would be a real pain to deal with!

This is the tank drained and I can't even get the dead coral off the glass. It's like cemented on!

 

[thabizness]

I just made a video on them. Green trash palys.

 

[nickkohrn]

I just made a video on them. Green trash palys.

Oh man, that was rough. That seems like it would have been a nightmare! The funny part is that I can’t tell if they are actually named Green Trash Palys or if you’re calling them that because you hate them. Haha

 

[thabizness]

It's my name for them. They are pretty much indestructible.

Oh man, that was rough. That seems like it would have been a nightmare! The funny part is that I can’t tell if they are actually named Green Trash Palys or if you’re calling them that because you hate them. Haha

 

[TheEngineer]

Texas trash is really their name. They look kinda nice, no? They’re the green ones. This is before they smothered all the nice ones near them in this picture.

 

[Scott chilton]

Bta. Kenya trees. Star poyps and the worse of the worse....red discosoma mushrooms.

 

[Ocean Lotion]

That sounds like a monstrous headache.

Suposed to read 8 hours. I should proof read.

 

[Pauley]

When I first started in the hobby, I got a deal on some used live rock. Cycled it in darkness for 2 weeks before adding it to a brand new tank. Shortly thereafter, I noticed tiny bits of anthelia poking out of the rock. 6 months later, I was trashing most of the rock. I’m pretty sure it would grow in my backyard.

 

[nickkohrn]

When I first started in the hobby, I got a deal on some used live rock. Cycled it in darkness for 2 weeks before adding it to a brand new tank. Shortly thereafter, I noticed tiny bits of anthelia poking out of the rock. 6 months later, I was trashing most of the rock. I’m pretty sure it would grow in my backyard.

Haha that’s terrible. I can’t believe how many different corals have given so many people trouble.