What's the first coral you got for your nano reef? My first was green star polyps.

Some really dark red mushrooms. They were nice too.

First coral that i got was in a 4 pack from live aquaria: mushrooms, gsp, kenya tree, and a leather. I cant vote for 4 things though so i'll just vote for gsp because its my favorite.

red with green stripes shrooms of course!

My first coral was some yellow polyps

That sucks that you cant pick more than one coral cause i got a 2feet by 2feet styro. box full of corals for free for my first coral,and i got GSP,clove polyps,10 kinds of shrooms,candy cane coral,ricordeas and lots lots more.

Green striped shroom and a hammer for me.

Plain brown palys. 2nd was some plain maroon shrooms (that ended up having a tiny goniopora colony thats still alive today).

shrooms..

Bought a Torch 'cause I was looking for something for Clowns to host in. They have never gone near it and now the Torch owns the whole bottom left side of my Cube. Hes going to have to go so I can put something else in that secton of my tank. Got a Galaxy that owns the top left side...might have to send them both packing.

my very first coral came from my friend. some zombie eye zoanthids or whtever we call em. still have em today. this was about a year ago.

brown shrooms

Green hairy shrooms that got to big for a nano

Orange encrusting monti that has since really taken off!

yellow polyps... still got em

orange zoanthid saturday 10-15-05.

a few sps frags that quickly died and some shrooms. i got these all from a buddy. it took alot to remember that cause it was about 8 years ago...damn ive been doing htis for too long, need a house for a bigger tank

I bought xenia before I even had water in my tank!!

I visited her at the pet store quite a few times each week until my tank was cycled...

some brown w/ orange center zoos. lost half the colony to a fungus, but they are growing back. wow...that was a year ago already...

My first corals, since I bought them all at the same time, was a purple monster and a superman danae, since they love 96w of PC light, plus a gonipora...cause they're really hardy!

just kidding...

a mushroom...it was so pretty...

Neon Green candy. Still doing great. I got it there was 3 heads on it and now there's 5

Very cool coral. It acctually eats pellets

pink white tip long tentacle plate

Green star polyps for me. Now they're growing like weeds and have them in all of my tanks

You got me going there for a while..

mine was a rock that had assorted shrooms' on it....still have it as i have only been reefing for 3months.... anyway there is considerable growth and alot of overcrowding....and stinging..so i advise everyobdy who sees a rock with assorted shrooms on it please dont get it...it is anoying and they let go and everything....also i notice the ugly brown ones are crowding al the preatty ones...

need more VOTES for XENIA!!!

shrooms.

Is it strange that I don't remember? Huh.

pulsing xenia and a couple orange zoanthids =) free from a friend of mine who was helping me get started!

A metallic green non-branching hammer. Still growing 2.5 years later.

Grey and red Acanthastrea Lordhowensis' I found a 5 polyp frag at a LFS for $50. That was the first coral I purchased anyway. I picked up a 3 different Montipora Digitata's(green, purple, and orange),at a local frag swap swap about 2 months before the tank was set up, they currently still being coral-sat in a freinds tank. I should be moving the corals into my tank in the next few weeks.

Green zoos

I put in mushrooms, as I bought the particular frag for an awesome green hairy mushroom (sold as ricordea...). The rock also had GSP and purple zoos on it.

Edit. Looked just like the one below my post....

my first coral was a fuzzy shrrom. now its like 8'' in diam and was 2 when i got it. Its in my 55gal tank.



~ Brian

My first was several multi colored shrooms, an awesome mat of GSP, some orange zoos and a green finger leather frag. Oh and two kinds of xenia

Frogspawn, and he is out the door this weekend, grew too big for 6 gal cube.

GSP and Purple shrooms

holy crap! where did you get all that for free?

I bought two items a ricordia encrusted rock with some zoo's tagging along(orange bullseyes w/green skirt) and a zoo colony(brown w/ green skirts). I voted for the zoo's as they were what I said "sold" to first.

Bill

Dendronephtya (pink carnation coral).

Xenia... It's still the only coral in my tank Anyone wanna throw a newb a bone? Lol.

No one should ever buy a gonipora coral because they are the exact opposite of hardy. We still have no clue how to keep them alive for more than a few months. Any beginners out there heed my warning, DO NOT BUY ANY KIND OF GONIPORA OR FLOWERPOT CORAL. You will only kill it and waste your money. This is not an insult it is just a precaution. Anybody who says they have successfully raised one for more than a year is probaly lying. Nice joke P.O.T.U.S.

My first coral was a Tongue Coral that I thoroughly enjoyed...It lived for 3 months, all the while accepting the supplements and brine shrimp to help fight the bleaching. the bleaching had a beachhead on the very tip of the coral and that line would shift constantly back and forth and the coral fought it off....it finally succumbed after almost 3 months...a true warrior of the coral world...i miss it alot...RIP

A rock of five brown zoas that now a year and a half later are over a houndred and nice and red.

Brown Button Polyps, started at about 5 polyps, already up to over a dozen.

Free from a guy at work!

I bought my first coral today! I bought the smallest frag of zoanthids i could find lurking at the bottom of the tank, hopefully they will do well....*fingers crossed*

gsp

condy anemone

last time i checked, jordan, anemones don't fall under the 'coral' category (or do they?).

- my first coral was a frag or orange zoanthids-- they finally were wiped out about 7 months ago. i couldn't stand the darn things after i started buying nicer zoa morphs. lol.

eh, w/e. I thought it was a coral when I bought it (since it was my first I was obviously still a noob)