Corals

[Angelfish56]

So my 14 biocube is done cycling and with the light it came with what corals could I get that are easy to care for and aren't that expensive

 

[Ratrob57]

Green star polyps, zoanthids, frog spawn, soft leather corals(Kenya tree, cult, toadstool) anthalia, shrooms, I've got a donut coral in there I've see others with brain and cup corals swell as some tongue corals

I would suggest you invest into a corals book
Julian sprung has a nice one
Corals: a quick reference

It lists light needs, flow, placement, agressiveness feeding and more

 

[Angelfish56]

What about Silver Pulsating Xenia

 

[Caseyboy]

What about Silver Pulsating Xenia

There ok. They can be picked at by a lot of different stuff did you get an arrow crab.

 

[Caseyboy]

O I also Agee with mr ratrod57 a leather is a great starter coral. My first was a toadstools.

 

[Angelfish56]

No arrow crab people said they can get really big

 

[Caseyboy]

Xenia will work fine. Very fun to watch, under lower flow the polyps will move more. Also mushrooms are a good place to start as well.

 

[Crabs]

Want a cool coral. Try a single Dendrophyllia. Sum call it sun coral, but it isn't really. They require no light. ( non photosynthetic ) But u have to hand feed them. I thought it would be a pain. But it isn't. They're pretty awesome. And watching them ingest their food is real interesting

 

[Crabs]

Another thing about this coral. Although they're usually closed up when the lights r on. U can train them to remain open all the time. Just by feeding during daylight hours. Many people mistake them 4 anemones, but they're not

 

[Caseyboy]

Another thing about this coral. Although they're usually closed up when the lights r on. U can train them to remain open all the time. Just by feeding during daylight hours. Many people mistake them 4 anemones, but they're not

I do want to try them. Do you feed every day or one to two times a week.

 

[Crabs]

I feed mine a little every day. But only because I like to. My LFS said 3-4 times weekly is sufficient. And I've gone as long as 4 days because I was away. U just need to retrain them to remain open, when they're not fed for that length of time

 

[Caseyboy]

I feed mine a little every day. But only because I like to. My LFS said 3-4 times weekly is sufficient. And I've gone as long as 4 days because I was away. U just need to retrain them to remain open, when they're not fed for that length of time

Cool, thanks for the info.