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.