Easy Corals?

[msmith619]

OK, I am thinking ahead. My 75 gallon reef tank is put together and has water, a 29 gallon wet/dry filter underneath (1096 gph flow), an AquaC Remora Pro skimmer, two 800 gph power heads for water flow, and heater. Live rock and live sand are going in this weekend. I have a T5 HO light fixture with 2 white, 2 blue, and 4 moon lights with timers. (I plan on taking pictures in stages as the aquarium "grows up").
I used to grow mushrooms and leather corals and like the large polyps and plate corals that look like anemones. I also intend to keep bubble-tip anemones and clowns.
Long pre-amble, my question is, which corals are the easiest to start with and should do well in the type aquarium I set up? I plan to go slow but, want to plan ahead. Please send suggestions and photos if able so I know what I am looking for when the time is right.
Mike

[gjuarez]

Softies are generally easy to keep. Any type of leather should be fine but you dont want to keep it where the flow hits them dirrectly. Zoanthids and palythoas are not that difficult to keep and they are beautiful, they have become very popular these days. Anemones are light demanding invertabraes, i think you should be fine but not as easy to keep as the corals mentioned before. You can keep a ton of things with the equipment you have, and if you keep up with water changes and have good husbandry then you might be able to keep almost anything.

[jpond83]

zoanthids and palys are the easiest from my experience

[Bill S]

If you want to try SPS, try a low demand coral like a piece of green cap, maybe a piece of green slimer. Less hard to kill than many others. Might also try a torch/hammer/frogspawn.

[Troutmasters02]

I started the same way, except all my rock was dead. Click my signature to see picks of the coral I keep with no problems. In fact, not one fatality.

Good luck, and post some pics!!

[msmith619]

Tank is up! 75 gallon. 100 pounds live sand. 70 pounds live rock. Pictures coming this week. I left lots of space for adding corals.
Mike