your first coral

[toddpolish]

so, what was your first coral you bought?

 

[daniel411]

I believe my first coral, that I bought, was a small piece of "spatella" or atleast thats what the lfs called it.

 

[jugger]

my first was xenia and candy coral...

 

[legend]

xenia

 

[crazy4reefs]

yellow polyps, which i still amazingly have to this day about 1 and a 1/2 years later..

 

[the claw]

Frogspawn

 

[reefnut]

Xenia!!

 

[cope787]

devil's hand

 

[attml]

Not having a clue what I was doing I bought a RTNing Hydnopora (pic on left) out of the damaged coral tank of my LFS. I had to learn on the run but I fragged it and it is still alive (pic on right). Many reefers at my local reef club have a piece of this Hydno and SPSFreak100 and Tangsfornothing on this board both also have some!

 

[toddpolish]

did you guys have near perfect conditions (alk/calc etc) when you added your first coral???

 

[chinnyr]

Green zoos...

 

[nicky1.8t]

elegance
frogspawn
shrooms
zoos
green star pollups
.
i bought a used reef so i got some goodies

 

[hairtrigger]

Current reef... finger leather. I think I bought something else at the same time too though. One of my ricordeas I think.

 

[spsfreak100]

My first soft coral was a colony of mushrooms. My first Large polyped scleractinian (LPS) was a Hammar. My first Small polyped scleractinian (SPS) was a Hyndophora.
Mark,
The Hydnophora I got from you is now doing great! The receding has stopped and it has an amazing flourecent green color!
Graham

 

[the claw]

DVS THat is SWEET!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
I've been looking for a brain like that for several years. Love the color.

 

[bigmac]

Non branching hammer...It was the size of basket ball when I sold it last year

 

[jmesmcm]

Scalymia which included a NICE collection of hydroids that the LFS said were a harmless macro algae that then spread around the tank. Never again will I buy a coral that has something that cannot be readily identified on it!!!

 

[fishkiller]

My first were some blue ricordias. All but one died, and that one is now about 4" across- Beautiful!
Bigmac- How fast did your hammer grow, and how can you tell if it is a NON-branching hammer? Mine is one branch and huge! Hairtrigger wants it, but aint nobody gettin' their hands on it!

 

[buzz]

3 Green Ricordia's and some Metallic Green Star Polyps.

 

[broncofish]

Four years ago I bought a Gonoporia "Flower Pot" it lived for a year, and I thought I did awesome Second coral I ever bought was some mushrooms, they are still alive well, and fragged multiple times. Man If icould go back in time I never would of got that gono