What's the FIRST coral you ever bought?

[N3mo]

Xenia..

And I still love it and have it..

 

[rusty hannon]

Not sure of its placement in the coral family but it was a blk sun coral n got it n 1998

 

[Shadowfax]

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

Wow, Mine too! it was good!

 

[IamChrismWard]

Refers today will probably cry when I say the 1st coral I bought was 35 years ago, it was about a 10" tall Elkhorn colony that I paid less than $20 for.

 

[Oswald]

First coral I ever got was a pulsing xenia... and the clowns pictured. It's been about 8 years. Sorry about the bad pic quality.

 

[G Santana]

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

I had these in my 1st tank yrs ago, I liked them. I think that Saltwaterfish.com had some for sale not so long ago.
These were definitely one of my first corals long ago lol

 

[StewL6]

Mine was a garden of 7 different zoas on eBay complete with great pictures which turned out to be 7 one polyps frags of which only one or two opened up. Of course my JBJ 28 nano cube was only three weeks old at the time 2013. Learned a lot since then. BTW The two that opened were amazing with the fluorescent color and I was hooked.

 

[Fin Jackson]

Mine were devils Fingers leather coral, Kenya trees, blastomussa, Zoas, Xenia, gsp and other cool softies for my first tank a few years back (seahorse aquarium). I bought them all at the same time and they did fairly well!

 

[ReeferMadness01]

Green hairy mushroom and devils hand frag. The mushrooms are all over now and the devils hand is 10x larger

 

[CCR671]

Geez, let me think it was either a mushroom or a pulsing Xenia….
…then I bought a dendro lol

 

[costaricareef]

Pink birdsnest under 400w metal halide lamp back in 2003. Grew to be the size of a volleyball!

 

[KingLucy1997]

A yellow tipped Gorgonian. Not the best first timer coral. It shed all of its flesh and it never grew back within the first month.

 

[A Young Reefer]

A sinularia leather coral , black torch and a blue tipped green hammer (yep all three at once ) 3 years later still happily growing .

 

[David S]

Mine was a Brown Cabbage Leather coral.
I wouldn't call it invasive at the time, just hardy - the only coral back then (late 90's) that was.

Google Image Result for https://reefbuilders.com/wp-content/blogs.dir/1/files/2016/02/sinularia-dura-cabbage-leather-coral-1.jpg

 

[Acroporaguy]

Palau nepthea.

 

[EakTheFreak]

Green Star Polyps all day. Still have the same rock covered and now patch on my back wall! . Call it easy sure, but I like how it looks and its durability

 

[Pescador]

Pseudopterogorgia sp.
Purple gorgonian from Live Aquaria https://www.liveaquaria.com/product/prod_display.cfm?c=597+601+6957&pcatid=6957

Grew slowly in criminally low light, was reduced to a mere speck of coenesarc on an otherwise bare skeleton during the COVID apocalypse of a classroom tank with no care for months, made a full recovery, and is thriving!

 

[iamahab]

That first lonely Scrambled Eggs from 8 months ago. Then the addiction started and I count about 35 different corals in that little tank now. What has happened to me?

Ok thank god I ran across your post. I have an evo with 20 small corals in it and I've been thinking it's too much for such a small new tank ( 8 months), after reading your post I feel better about things.Are you still rocking the stock light on your evo? I'm running a kessil a80 on mine.

 

[Just John]

Ok thank god I ran across your post. I have an evo with 20 small corals in it and I've been thinking it's too much for such a small new tank ( 8 months), after reading your post I feel better about things.Are you still rocking the stock light on your evo? I'm running a kessil a80 on mine.

That's funny, I think the same about mine. As they grow I have had to frag some of mine or trade them in at the LFS, but I still probably have about the same number. I had a 1.5" toadstool that is about 6" across now. I think it will be sold or getting traded in for a smaller one soon. I wanted to keep the hood, so a Fluval brand light was the only one that would fit. I bought one of those and a blue strip from Amazon. The lighting is good now. You should start a build thread!

 

[snorklr]

do the dead coral skeletons i bought from a souvenir stand in florida in the 80's to use as tank decor count ?...if not it was brown xenia...and i managed to kill it...