What is it going to cost? Setting up a saltwater tank or slice of coral reef in your living room. The secret to selecting the right size and shape for your first saltwater aquarium. Choose wisely! Sign Up Now. View Cart Checkout Now. Login Register Registered Customers. If you have an account, sign in with your email address. Sign In. Forgot Your Password? Continue with Facebook. Personal Information First Name. Last Name. Sign Up for Newsletter. Password Password Strength: No Password.
Confirm Password. Where they found BRS Other. Create an Account. Please enter your email address below to receive a password reset link. Reset My Password. Go back. All Rights Reserved. Feeding your LPS corals will promote good health and growth. Reef Roids is the best in the business for coral food. Just mix up the roids in a cup of tank water, use a turkey baster too grabbed the mixture, and directly feed the LPS corals while the pumps are off.
We will note that your tank must be setup with a healthy system before you begin placing corals in your aquarium. All corals require careful observation while they are establishing in your tank. Check for signs of stress like lack of opening up, discoloration, or damage to other corals. Stay patient and make adjustments as necessary.
Once you have your first set of corals established you will be on your way to a successful and enjoyable reefing experience! Contents show. Best LPS Coral. Great for beginners and forgiving.
Anemone Look-Alike. Hammer Coral A great anemone lookalike coral. Easy to care for. Look for branching types vs wall type.
Multiple Colors Available! Acans The best LPS coral if you are looking for a variety of colors. Easy to care for and fun to feed. Easy To Propagate. Known for being easy to frag.
Easy to keep and a fast grower. Tongue Coral A unique looking coral that is best placed at the bottom of your reef tank. They are a great way to get reds in your reef tank. Brain Coral A hardy coral that can be placed anywhere in the reef aquarium. It is one of the best choices for beginners. He started in the aquarium hobby at the age of 11 and along the way worked at local fish stores. Forgiving and hardy for an SPS, it will offer you the experience you need to get confident on more difficult corals.
SPS corals are intimating for anyone starting a coral reef tank. Most of the stories of tank crashes and failures usually come from Acropora corals. There are several varieties of SPS corals that fall under forgiviing. The birdnest coral is the toughest SPS coral you will find in the category. With facilities like ORA producing tank raised corals, they are getting more and more adaptive to home aquaria then ever before.
While they will require dosing to keep reef parameters up, they offer a good introduction to SPS reefing. They come in several colors from greens, pinks, purples, and red. They are a great stepping stone for moving up to the Montipora and Acroporas of the world as you have success with these. Mushroom corals have exploded in variety over the last few years.
Multiple colors available and lots of exotic varieties. Affordable and easy to care for! The mushroom coral sometimes will get a bad rap for reefers. This is because Disco mushrooms are so popular for newbies and their invasive nature to reproduce everywhere. These days though, the Mushroom coral has really come into their own, rivaling the Zoa with its variety of colors.
The main unique mushrooms these days are the Florida Ricordia mushrooms and exotic mushrooms like Jawbreaker Discos and Bounce Mushrooms.
The later two are very expensive, but the Ricordia offers a lot of variety and color. They are my favorite mushrooms because they have great colors and are affordable. They also do not reproduce like crazy. This leather coral offers a showpiece sized coral that is easy to care for.
Requires no dosing and thrives in a variety of conditions. The Toadstool Leather Coral used to be the most prominent coral in the early days of reefing. If you had one of those you were the envy of your reef community.
Growing over the size of a dinner plate, these leather corals will become the centerpiece of your reef tank and they are very easy to care for. Because they get so large, they also save you a lot of money in the long run since you would need less corals with the space they take. Leather corals like the toadstool have taken a backseat over the years with the popularity of designer SPS corals and LPS varieties like Euphyllias.
However, they still offer an amazing showpiece coral at a reasonable price and they are easy to care for. They require no dosing whatsoever and are very forgiveness with parameters. I mentioned the hammer coral as being able live peaceful with frogspawn corals. The hammer coral makes this list for being amazing to look at and being moderately easy to care for.
However, you need to have caution when purchasing one. This is because hammer corals are sold in either wall or branching varieties. The wall varieties will usually offer more exotic colors, but are harder to care for. With walls if the colony gets diseases or starts dying, the entire coral will go up in smoke. However, with branching types, you can simply cut off the diseased or dying area and the rest of the colony will keep going. Like frogspawn corals, these are aggressive corals that will sting others nearby with their sweeper tentacles.
As long as you pair them with the right corals you should be fine. They also do not grow fast so you can work your way into dosing as they grow. The Blasto Coral lands on this list because of their prominent red colors and ease of care. They also come in oranges now if you are looking at Aussie variety.
They are one of the most peaceful LPS corals you can purchase and do not grow fast. Because they do not grow fast, you can ease into reef parameter maintenance. If you are looking for an easy to care for red or orange color, this is a great addition! The Pocillopora is a great first time SPS coral that is forgiving on parameters.
Peaceful and a moderate grower. The Pocillopora Coral is a easier to keep SPS coral that offers a fuzzy like look when they are fully expanded. Moreover, the skeleton exhibits a beautiful branching form. Trumpet corals require moderate to brighter illumination, but are much more tolerant of polluted water than other stony corals.
This coral consists of a single, huge, fleshy polyp on a rather small skeleton. It is perfectly happy to rest over the substrate on the very bottom of the tank and is indeed quite tolerant of lower light levels.
Aside from its physical and physiological resilience, it is favored for its bright coloration. Most often, it takes on a deep red color that is especially impressive under bluish lighting. Though this stony coral is zooxanthellate, it will gladly accept an occasional and surprisingly big bite of food; for this, a meaty item such a single large krill will suffice.
Written by: PetMD Editorial. Published: October 25, Image via iStock. Tips for Maintaining Corals in a Reef Tank No coral or any aquarium animal, for that matter is imperishable. Providing a Coral-Friendly Captive Environment Prior success with marine fishes does not necessarily equate to guaranteed success with corals. Getting the Water Right Corals are particularly sensitive to ammonia and nitrite. Here are some of the different types of coral for reef tanks that are great for beginners: 1.
Star polyps Pachyclavularia spp. Leather corals Sarcophyton spp.
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