need coral help

[meanteen]

:help: ima a new reef tank oner and i think i am ready for some coral, id like some advice about what coral is best to start of with with and one that looks nice to. :help:

 

[granny]

WEEELLLL, It isnt such an easy question to answer. What size is your tank? What lighting do you have? What other tank inhabitants are there?, what is your substrate. Are you showing any nitrates or phosphates?
The mushrooms and leathers are generally the easiest for starters as well as colonial polyps and some LPS corals.
This web site and others have good pictures of corals that are available and some have nano packs or beginner paks which are good to start with as well.

 

[meanteen]

i have a 24 g nano cube and i have small corals that are spreading all around my tank but they r kinda small , but thes a lot and i want to get some sort of a coral so i could get a clown fish so it could live in it .

 

[120reefer]

Well, clowns usually host to anemones, BUT i have seen some host to certain corals such as frogspawn or bubble coral

. BTW, like Granny asked.. what type of lighting?

 

[meanteen]

i dont realy no its the stock ones that came in the nano cube ,,,....

thanks granny

 

[granny]

If its the reef nano cube, it has a small power compact on it, which will support quite a few corals. The problem is anemones and some corals like the frogspawn can get very large and take over your tank.
Look online at the nanopaks of corals and I think you will find some good selections.
As a matter of fact at least one site had beginner nano paks. Whether a clown will go into any of them is another issue. You could find a small Bubble tip, but if it lives, it will get large enough to pretty much take over your tank!

 

[mikeyjer]

Clowns can host other corals as well other then just anemone. My clowns hosts mainly in large zoo colonies and the large candy cane coral as well. :happyfish

 

[symon]

I have a clown that has hosted a set of fans