First Coral

[Still Learning]

Do you remember what your first coral was? How long did it last? Do you still have it? If you could tell a newbie some advice about your first coral....what would your advice be?

[Mike]

Our first coral polyp turned out to be an aptasia. :)

For newbie corals I recommend mushrooms, star polyps, and kenya trees. Pretty easy to keep those...

[ramsey]

My first was a mushroom hitchhiker on a piece of live rock. It's still alive and doing well.

[ramsey]

+1 on the corals Mike mentioned. Those are pretty hard to kill.

[txmike]

2nd on the aptasia as our first

[kkiel02]

Mine was given to me free. I cant remember the name right now but it kind of looks like anthelia. Still have it and have been trying to kill it but its quite invasive. I also had a mushroom that I thought I lost but recently found three of them behind an anemone. If I had to do it over again I would try LPS like frogspawn or a hammer type coral as softies became real invasive for me anyways.

[Mr Cob]

My first coral was Yellow Polyps. I remember finding a crazy "roach" in the colony! Later found out it was an amphipod...LOL!

[ramsey]

My first coral was Yellow Polyps. I remember finding a crazy "roach" in the colony! Later found out it was an amphipod...LOL!

Yup, I saw one in my nano and thought it was a baby mantis. Glad it wasn't. My tank is crawling with them now and I'm using them to seed another tank for seahorses!

[phippsj]

My first coral was polyps that hitchhiked off of a fellow maast member when they sold me their live rock. My tank is now swarming with them :)

It's ok though... the dull polyps just make the colorful stuff stand out that much better!

I found that zoas were really easy to keep. Mushrooms are fun too, but for whatever reaons I have had a harder time with them... maybe too much lighting, or whatever, but they always loose color and then have to regain it over months.