first coral

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My girlfriend is starting a new tank and wants to get a coral we where looking at bubble coral, plate coral and brain coral. I dont have much experience with corals so can you please tell me what would be good for a beginer.

[mik]

definatley softies only and maybe some other lps. i suggest collerful zoo's like eagle eyes if ya can afford them or yellow star polyps,shrooms of all sorts leathers too.i would avoid the bubble and plate coral for begginers. A green open brain i suppose would be alright for a begginer. Dose your tank with calcium,iodine etc and keep up water changes and you should be goodB)

 

edit: oh also what light is she gonna have on her tank and what size tank. can you post specs.

[someone]

yeah, i agree with mik. but u should post some specs and we can probably help you even more

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it is a 5 hex with a 23w daylight bulb and a 20 corallife 50/50. it has a AC mini and a 50w heater. we have no fish yet and we got a cleen up crew last week I have been testing the tank and has already seen the spikes.

[holyherbiness]

If i were to dose, I would dose only a calcium/alkalinity supplement.

 

I would not dose all those supplements like iodine, strontium , manganese, and those other wacky elements

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I do Ca and iodine. I also have some coral food from my 5.5 that got killed. we are going shoping today to see what we can get.

[snaggle]

I got her some green star polups. I hope they work out ok. thank you all.