What's Your Nemesis Coral?

[vetteguy53081]

Millie and after tank change- birdsnest

 

[Nailqueencat]

Wall hammers. I can keep them growing and looking happy for maybe 4-5 months and then they decline v slowly until there’s just skeleton. I just don’t understand it as I’ve kept huge branching hammers - one was 12 yrs old and the size of a basketball. I think most of my local hobbyists have frags of that one, but I force myself to walk past any walls as I know what will happen.

 

[ihavecrabs]

I have the same problem as @Nailqueencat with Torches and Frogspawn. Keep them for months then they slowly recede to skeleton.

 

[Paul Worley]

I think if you've been doing this long enough you probably have that coral that you struggle with a little more than others. Whether it's getting it to live, or getting it to look nice. Ideally if you're posting here you've tried these corals with different setups and systems and conditions.

I've got two... I can color up most corals pretty well, but no matter the system I always have a hard time with getting a rich purple with GARF Bonsai. I've also killed a fair amount of A. Sarmentosa over the years and they just don't seem to like me, but I think they were mostly wild colony frags.

So, what are yours? Also, if you care to speculate, what's the reason for your struggles Maybe we can find some commonality between us.

 

[UFreefer]

PC Superman

 

[ScottB]

Goniopora. Happy for 6 mos, dead the next month. Acros are a walk in the park relative to Goni in my tank.

 

[Nailqueencat]

Goniopora. Happy for 6 mos, dead the next month. Acros are a walk in the park relative to Goni in my tank.

Oh yes, I forgot gonis. Exactly the same for me. Another one I have to give a wide berth to however tempting and pretty they look.