What was the first coral you ever had?

[Gumbies R Us]

I feel like we all remember the time when we first added something to our tank, whether it is a fish or even coral. I am wondering what was the first coral you ever added to your tank, and is it still around in your tank? Curious to know everyone's input!

 

[Kmst80]

Frogspawn and yes it's still well alive after close to two years.

 

[KQuillan]

Xenia! I keep it cut back, but yes, I still do have it.

 

[SaltyT]

I bought my 1st two corals at the same time: GSP and Cespitularia ... they looked so pretty in the LFS tank, but no one warned me that they both can spread like wild fire!

 

[Anemone_Fanatic]

I think a blastomussa? Not sure. I added a few corals at the same time to my first tank a few years ago, trying to remember which went in first. There was the blasto, a torch, some zoas, and a candy cane. I added them into a 2 week nano tank with only a small CUC and AIO filtration, can you guess what happened to them? Needless to say, I had plenty of little white rocks rolling around in that tank after a while.

 

[SPS2020]

GSP back in the 80's, followed by a Leather. LPS was next, think it was a Brain of some sort.

 

[Reefing102]

First coral was a frag of unknown table Acro found still alive on a piece of live rock. Still had polyps. And then quickly died in my tank that was a couple weeks old. The next was a pink colt coral. Survived a few years under power compacts from 04-07 then I moved.

 

[DeniseAndy]

I think one of my first was a toadstool. It was less than an inch in diameter. I got it to like 16+" before a tank move and it died away. I still have a frag of it, but it is not the same. Here is a picture of it close to 16"

 

[Gumbies R Us]

I think one of my first was a toadstool. It was less than an inch in diameter. I got it to like 16+" before a tank move and it died away. I still have a frag of it, but it is not the same. Here is a picture of it close to 16"

Very nice looking!

 

[OlafsReef]

Ricordea Florida, followed shortly by a purple Monitpora Digitaga about 2001

 

[AdamG280]

I feel like we all remember the time when we first added something to our tank, whether it is a fish or even coral. I am wondering what was the first coral you ever added to your tank, and is it still around in your tank? Curious to know everyone's input!

It was three zoas about a week ago.

 

[Doctorgori]

Brain & porites on Tonga (Or Marshal Island?) rock

 

[Garf]

Toadstool for me also

 

[Townes_Van_Camp]

Mushrooms. Green ones. Because there was a video on GARF about how easy it was to frag them.

Side note, they were the ones who got me interested with the hobby years ago. I was kinda sad to see that they shut it all down.

 

[TurboTang]

Xenia was the first. It started growing fast, nearly doubled in size until my coral beauty decided it had to go. I was really mad at that fish at the time - but later realized he saved us from an invasion

 

[KingSyn]

First Coral was a green hammer, I ordered it online through Etsy for like 40$. Was so excited when I got one with two heads, it has now tripled in size about a year later and has 6 or so heads! There’s just something about the satisfaction of knowing your corals are happy and healthy especially through the ups and downs of this hobby.

 

[Reefdiculous22]

mushroom.

 

[Reefdiculous22]

mushroom.

The pic is the first, you can see the edge of one above it , that is it’s clone. It split a couple months ago.

 

[14 foot reef]

GSP...... 41 years ago

 

[AstroCoral]

Green trumpet coral