What was your first coral?

[Sandroni]

Hello everyone, hope everyone is doing well I want to know what your first ever coral was and how long it lived/is it still alive?
Angela

 

[ahiggins]

My first one was a $2 xenia...which was infested with aiptasia so I threw it away lol
second was a boring ol red acan. Still have it to this day

 

[tupes]

Cant remember if mine was Xenia or Kenya tree. Got rid of it a long time ago.

 

[acro-ed]

My very first coral was a Eunicea ("gorgonia") from the Keys. It is 20 years old this year. It's sort of a fluke that this one has always survived (hurricanes, moving several times, equipment malfunctions, etc. etc.).

-Ed

 

[Sandroni]

My very first coral was a Eunicea ("gorgonia") from the Keys. It is 20 years old this year. It's sort of a fluke that this one has always survived (hurricanes, moving several times, equipment malfunctions, etc. etc.).

-Ed

Wow very cool!

 

[don_chuwish]

Mushrooms & button polyps that came on the live rock used to start the tank. First coral I ever bought on their own were frogspawn and hammer. Still have those much larger colonies years later.

 

[Scurvy]

My 1st pickup was a small Crown Leather. Pretty cool as It changes shape daily.

 

[Bunnee911]

Blue mushrooms. 1987. Still have the strain going.

 

[Sandroni]

Blue mushrooms. 1987. Still have the strain going.

Wow, those mushrooms are beautiful! and I love your clown.

 

[c2l2parker]

Frogspawn frag...was only about an inch tall and an inch wide. After 5 years it's has grown to be about 10 inches tall and 10 inches wide with about 12 heads. Unfortunately about 6 months ago half the heads died for reasons unknown. I am still shocked that my first coral is alive especially given all the ones that didn't make it!

 

[mort]

I got GSP and a toady. Don't have either a decade later but many people do from all the frags I made over the years.

 

[AcroNem]

I have a couple pictures I keep in a drawer of my first system, first corals I ever got were a pair of mushrooms. Also the first things I fragged setting me on the path I'm on now working in public aquaria. Dated 2004. I don't still have either of the ones below but I do have a colony of Palythoa grandis and a Blastomussa that lived in that same system.

And for kicks, a pic of a chalice I had in the same 24 nano cube under PC lighting. I remember buying it for $40

 

[Bunnee911]

My blue mushrooms in 1987

Dupe post. Sorry

 

[MmmmBalf]

My first coral was a heliofungia. That was only 5 months ago, so it's still going fine. This was it when I bought it.

 

[BlueCursor]

A red mushroom. Wish I could get all his great great grandchildren out of my tank.

 

[RyanCSGO]

green goniopora, sadly it died along with everything else in that tank. had zero clue f what i was doing at the time (not my photo)

 

[jgvergo]

I bought a few (it was only a year ago when I started my tank): A Frogspawn has grown from two tiny heads to a big tree, A Riccordia that is 5x in size, a two polyp zoa colony that died and a small chalice frag that died.

 

[Christiangates]

Here's mine. Friend gave it to me today. Tanks about 3 months old