What are some Hardy And Low Maintance corals?

[FishAreFriends2]

What are some hardy and low maintance corals out there? I would like some corals that can with stand water peram that aren't perfect. Can be kept with 2x36 t5's in a 20inch tall tank. I don't want to spot feed any corals just some low maintance and not demanding corals. I shrooms are easy but what else? IF you can provide a picture that be awsome. TIA

[stubble88]

yellow leather. Green polyps (careful though, they spread), just from my own experience.

[michaeltwana]

I would worry more about getting your parameters right before sticking anything in, but....

[ManilaMan]

fisharefriends is asking for easy to care corals. i dont think he/she mentioned anything that the water param is off and what corals he should put in it

anyways, here are some list that imo is easy to care

xenias
green star polyps
leathers
mushrooms
kenya tree
colt
and a lot more mostly softies

you said you have a T5 so you might consider some LPS too like frogspawn, hammer, candycane

i cant find links right now for easy to care corals but i saw this a thread a few days ago, might help

http://archive.reefcentral.com/forum...readid=1252794

goodluck!

[DanInSD]

I've never been able to keep a kenya tree alive. In two different tanks, they "melted" within a week, under what I was told was "ideal" flow, water parameters, and lighting. Maybe I got two bad samples, but I'd remove that one from the list. Xenia is another one that can be "fickle". They are less tolerant of changes in water parameters, particularly pH and alkalinity. For some, they grow like weeds. For others, they fail to thrive. They're fun, though, because they are so active.

However, I'd definitely agree with the star polyps (green or brown) and the mushrooms. Almost impossible to kill.

I have insufficient experience with the other soft corals to render an opinion. However, frogspawn and hammer corals are easily kept if fed regularly. Again, you have to be a little careful when feeding corals because it can quickly affect water parameters if you overfeed; so you may want to wait until you're able to keep good, stable water parameters with purely photosynthetic corals.

Dan

[erbio]

I would not recommend colt coral to beginners...

Originally posted by ManilaMan
fisharefriends is asking for easy to care corals. i dont think he/she mentioned anything that the water param is off and what corals he should put in it

anyways, here are some list that imo is easy to care

xenias
green star polyps
leathers
mushrooms
kenya tree
colt
and a lot more mostly softies

you said you have a T5 so you might consider some LPS too like frogspawn, hammer, candycane

i cant find links right now for easy to care corals but i saw this a thread a few days ago, might help

http://archive.reefcentral.com/forum...readid=1252794

goodluck!

[renogaw]

yea, actually if you read the second line--your list (minus the colt) is good, the tude isnt:

I would like some corals that can with stand water peram that aren't perfect.

Originally posted by ManilaMan
fisharefriends is asking for easy to care corals. i dont think he/she mentioned anything that the water param is off and what corals he should put in it

anyways, here are some list that imo is easy to care

xenias
green star polyps
leathers
mushrooms
kenya tree
colt
and a lot more mostly softies

you said you have a T5 so you might consider some LPS too like frogspawn, hammer, candycane

i cant find links right now for easy to care corals but i saw this a thread a few days ago, might help

http://archive.reefcentral.com/forum...readid=1252794

goodluck!

[Boca Kris]

I kept ricordea under a 2 x 28W T5 unit (about 1 watt per gallon).

[atzak]

I have found colt corals to be very hardy.

[jetta]

My first corals were zoanthids and they did well. I have most of them from 2 years ago still going and growing.