What Corals have done the best in your tanks.

[KnH]

What corals have done the best in your tanks,

We all have had corals struggle and those who just thrive in our tanks.

Let me hear about the ones that hove done the best for you

Thanks

[gulfsurfer101]

The cheapest ones that turned out to be fire! Those always do best!

[Newstead]

+1 above ! But I love LPS - euphyllias, acans, even NPS sun corals do great for me (now I have just jinxed them all).

[SunWyrm]

Every tank has been different but I usually have a few that do great no matter what. Heliopora is one, and bubble corals another (not even other euphyllias). My 30g acans are doing fantastic, as well as some nicer zoas. Still failing with sps tho

[gulfsurfer101]

Maricultured sps seem to have a poor track record. Don't be discouraged. Look for aquacultured sps, it's much more forgiving!

[TheKleinReef]

my torch coral, hammer, plate, and bubble corals are freaking tanks. they survived so many spikes/issues it's insane.

[Dylan.N]

Acans have always done well for me. Duncans and blastos have had amazing growth.

[fishfreak0114]

Hammers, mushrooms and I have a watermelon Favia that's growing really quick!

[Cencalfishguy56]

Frogspawn and hammers! I can never keep torches alive for the life of me and I have no clue why lol

[KnH]

Looks like Lots of LPS,

Is it just a stability issue with the sps and small volumes of water

[jolee0722]

LPS. Acans and euphyllia have survived everything in my tank. The same can not be said for pipe organs, zoanthids ( ), and acropora. Also birdsnest is very hardy and is by far the fastest grower in my tank.

[KnH]

I was thinking of trying the easy sps

Birdnest & montipora family

[mystersyster]

GH algae grows great. Also had great success with cyano (grows like an alien weed), brown film, hydroids, and bryopsis. I've been pretty lucky to grow all types of life!

[vlangel]

Mushrooms! I have always been able to grow shrooms in any tank I have had.

[Sharbuckle]

Euphyllia of all kinds. Frogspawn in particular does best.

[masterbuilder]

Montipora Setosa. Supposed to be slow growing but mine are my fastest growers by far.

[Mariaface]

Ricordea, Euphyllia, and Acans always forgive me for my mistakes. Most zoas do, too.

[reefernanoman]

My orange monti cap. It has grown from 1.5inch to over 8+ inches in 1.5 years. It's huuuuuuuge!:

 

Before:

 

After:

[markalot]

Blastos. When everything in my 150 was melting down my Blastos did great. Even my red cap nearly died.

 

Acropora lokani. I have no idea why, but also did fine.

 

[picoreef78]

Any monitipora, Red planet, Pink lemonade, mushrooms (to the point they took over the tank and I had to chisel them off and traded in 200 + polyps).

[pa1ntbru5h]

My Hammer coral seems to be really resilient.
I haven't been able to successfully keep montiporas even though I have acros that are doing well.

[wow.such.chris]

caulastrea, mushrooms, euphyllia, lobophyllia, favia

[ndrobey]

Any invasive pest.

[jimmyree]

The sponges that came on my liverock.

[Tuffryu]

This is a pretty ambiguous thread KnH as there are so many success stories for different reasons and conditions but will put in my .02 cents worth of experience.

 

I have a 9 gallon SPS dominant tank (originally a 2.5) that I dose regularly and have had great success (in order) with digitatas, caps, pavonas, and seriatoporas. Polyps, shrooms and zoas have also been multiplying insanely in less than a year the tank has been running.