What's the FIRST coral you ever bought?

[Pkunk35]

Love this question!
Technically I bought $80 single piece of live rock in 1998 for my FOWLR that had one yellow polyp on it. I kept trying to feed it flake food because it would “react” to it.

first coral I purchased on purpose were certainly pulsing Xenia the pink kind. Who didn’t love these until they took over your first reef tank?

not my pic!

 

[Joe462]

What's the FIRST coral you ever bought?

Oh my gosh,, for me,, we're talking 2007.... but I'm pretty sure it was Yellow Polyps

For some reason everyone thinks they're invasive and ugly and only one step above Aiptasia.... but I always thought they were pretty cool and add color to your tank.

You never see these for sale anymore

Reclassify them as a zoa and give them a cool marketing name like Yellow Jacket Stingers and they'd probably sell for $15/polyp. Lol

Monti cap or maybe a mushroom? i'm also going back to 2007 or 8 can't remember that for sure either.

I still have some yellow polyps as well, they are pretty much responsible for me only having about 5 varieties of zoa left. they took over the tank i had most of my zoas in, they would actually grow on the zoas, i would find them attached to the stalk of my zoas.

edit: my first might have been pulsing xenia

 

[Ancient Mariner]

1992. Elegance coral. 20 gallon long, regular fluorescent light with a plant bulb, undergravel filter with silica sand and 2 pieces of live rock. It did great in sewer water for 2 years. Had to give it away to a friend when I moved. He was disgusted when he tested my tank water it was transported in.

 

[Dolphins18]

Found this photo the other day from 2010-2011. Old school biocube with a metal halide over it. I still have the mushrooms and the kenya trees, these were my first corals. Idk what happened to the other stuff.

 

[Pkunk35]

1992. Elegance coral. 20 gallon long, regular fluorescent light with a plant bulb, undergravel filter with silica sand and 2 pieces of live rock. It did great in sewer water for 2 years. Had to give it away to a friend when I moved. He was disgusted when he tested my tank water it was transported in.

dude, keeping an elegence alive in 1992! I’m amazed

 

[revhtree Verified Admin]

Had to add a poll and make this the QOTD thread!

 

[Ancient Mariner]

dude, keeping an elegence alive in 1992! I’m amazed

Totally lucked out. No additives. Just water changes but still became sewer water. That has made me a minimalist reefer!

 

[dennis romano]

I bought a piece of live rock in the early 1980s from Ocean Gallery in Montclair, NJ with a bunch of zoas.

 

[UkiahTheTurtle]

GSP, Kenya tree, and Devils hand

 

[X-37B]

Dont remember but in the late 80's live rock had corals attatched that grew out of the rock.

 

[Sharkbait19]

Started last august with a thick finger lobophytum leather:

Strangely do not have any recent pics but it has grown a lot.

 

[dantimdad]

1989 Bubble coral under NO flourescent bulbs. Thing got HUGE.

 

[JaimeAdams]

I went to a Pittsburgh Marine Aquarium Society meeting, now 3 Rivers Marine Aquarium Society. I knew nothing about coral. At this point I had a fuzzy dwarf lionfish and a damsel in a 20 gallon. There was a raffle at the end of the meeting so I bought either $10 or $20 in tickets. I won a Torch, Galaxia and palythoas. They were all closed up in deli cups and I knew nothing so thought that was all that they were. I took them home and stuck them in a 5 gallon that I also had. The next day when I woke up the buttons were open and the torch heads and galaxia were extended and blowing in the current. I flipped my lid. What the heck was this stuff all extended from the closed skeleton that I thought was all that they were. Needless to say I've been hooked ever since.

 

[Goaway]

1992 was the beginning of my reefing journey, blindly. For my 11th after birthday present. My sister bought me a pink pearl bubble coral. My first ever coral in unknown conditions for 2 or 3 years. Did well grew beautifully under outdoor flood lamps. That was my first ever coral.

2004 or 2005 i resumed a sw tank. 2006 1st coral i bought was a toadstool leather coral from petco. Died in less than a week....

After that i bought test kits.... Got a bit more serious. Ended up with mushrooms next. The list goes on.

Life is a journey.

 

[DannoOMG]

Whatever type of Pink Zoanthids these were for the local store. $25 dollars.

 

[sp1187]

What's the FIRST coral you ever bought?

Oh my gosh,, for me,, we're talking 2007.... but I'm pretty sure it was Yellow Polyps

For some reason everyone thinks they're invasive and ugly and only one step above Aiptasia.... but I always thought they were pretty cool and add color to your tank.

You never see these for sale anymore

Reclassify them as a zoa and give them a cool marketing name like Yellow Jacket Stingers and they'd probably sell for $15/polyp. Lol

same, back in 1983.
LFS still sells them.

 

[Goaway]

Yellow Jacket Stingers

More like "dim mak" zoas.

 

[Projects with Sam]

I'm still setting up the tank. I haven't bought any coral yet.

 

[fish farmer]

In 2000 I bought the IPSF 9 for $99 package which had Anthelia polyps, survived the two to three day journey from Hawaii to Vermont.

 

[MaxTremors]

The first coral I ever ‘bought’ we’re some discosomas that came in on some live rock. The first coral that I bought as an intentional purchase was (I think, it was many years ago) was a toadstool.