What's the FIRST coral you ever bought?

[takitaj]

I think my first coral was a type of kenya tree. (was a looong time ago ) It grew HUGE and FAST, then started dropping babies everywhere. I soon regretted that choice. 2nd was an 8" wall hammer for like $60 I think, beautiful piece. It was super healthy for months then went down hill. Had some Zoanthids for a while too but they started to grow everywhere after a while. I stick to LPS & SPS these days.

 

[NashobaTek]

I have yet to BUY any corals. However my first coral is a neon green toadstool and it was a freebie from ipsf, than they sent me a couple of goni frags as freebies for another order.

 

[Karen00]

I gave it back to the LFS that sold it to me, It's likely they sold it to someone else. I wish I had pictures, the only pic I have from those days was my quarantine tank. It didn't dawn on me to take pictures of my tank when I was that young.

Wow! At least it went back to a place you know could look after it and hopefully whomever bought it was able to keep it alive. Let's face it, taking pics is so much easier now with our cellphones. It's hard to believe that just 20 yrs ago most phones were just phones and the ones that took pics were kind of crappy. Even digital cameras weren't so great! It's also so hard to visualize getting full colonies of corals back then. Nowadays you're lucky if you get a frag the size of your thumbnail from a LFS!

 

[Karen00]

GSP! bottom left is my GSP island. 4 different “morphs”.

I love your aquascape!!!

 

[Calm Blue Ocean]

The first coral or the first coral that survived? lol

For my first corals I ordered online. They were an ORA long polyp toadstool and a kenya tree. They were damaged in shipping and melted in the following days. Dreams crushed and I was sure it was something I did. Except...weeks? months? later, the kenya tree actually came back from a seemingly bare rock.

Does that put me into the invasive category?

I still put a frag of it in my new tank, that guy gets credit for tenacity and wins sentimental points. FIRST CORAL! WOOT!

First actually successful corals (not accidentally successful) came from my LFS. A kenya tree (because we thought the other one died) and a pulsing xenia. I still have both of those corals as well.

I should have checked invasive, shouldn't I?

 

[jda]

Fox Coral back when they were very much available for reasonable prices and also very cool with what else was out there. ...maybe 1991-1992 and I took it home on my bike?

 

[tharbin]

A Goniopora back in 1976.

 

[design.maddie]

most plane-jane yellowish-fleshy-pink toadstool was the size of my thumb, grew it alone in a tank for about 9 months and it got to the size of a dinnerplate.

 

[reaper93]

Bought my first coral, a hammer and eagle eyes zoanthids about 2 weeks ago

 

[Buckeye Ken]

My first was a pulsating xenia, about 4 months ago

 

[McPuff]

Ricordia yuma mushrooms back in 2004... and I still have plenty of descendants from that original rock. Have had HUNDREDS of them leave my house in one form or another (trade, sales, garbage, freebies).

 

[Reeferaddicts]

Mine was an utter chaos zoa

 

[Duncan62]

I can't believe I found a pic of it online!!!!
My first light.... circa 2007

I feel old. Lol

 

[Duncan62]

Since we're taking a trip down memory lane here is a picture of my first skimmer. It had to be one of the first models that Reef Octopus made.

This isn't my picture but I could take a picture of mine since it's in my garage still. I actually was using it on my current tank until about 2 years ago.

Gosh. My first skimmer was diy from pvc pipe an air stone and a triangle piece of glass. You'll never know how proud I was of the first drop of brown goo!! Lol.

 

[Hydrahawk]

I believe it was gsp for me. I too ran pc as my first reef light.

 

[Duncan62]

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

Same thing. My first was a zoa hitchhiker. Came from lfs.

 

[sweat90lx]

Bought this July 2012

 

[Pelagikos]

Still not sure what it’s called but this one is the first we bought that our clowns have claimed. Started out maybe 1” or so tall with 2 little tiny arms and is now this giant. Have had it almost a year now. Our first coral was a free single green fuzzy metallic mushroom head which is now out of control and almost upto 20 heads

Green sinularia? One of my 1st also!

 

[Pelagikos]

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

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

80's live rock groupies. \m/

 

[AquariumSpecialty Verified Sponsor]

I purchased my first coral in 1988 and it was either GSP or a leather coral and then in 2006 Aquarium Specialty opened for business. Also worth noting, I probably had the 1st Acropora coral in North or South Carolina. It came in as a 1 polyp hitchhiker on a Fiji yellow leather coral rock before you could buy acros. It grew it out into a colony and I was selling frags to Tideline Aquatics in Charleston, SC and Fishy Business in Columbia, SC before anyone could get Acropora.