Starting my coral adventure

[harryggumb]

So I'm new to SW and am about to dive into my first corals. I'm thinking about just doing soft corals in my 75g with my current orbit marine lighting system. I like zoas and polyps, might even get some mushrooms. Any advice for a coral newbie? Do I have to dose anything? Any suggestions of where to buy online

 

[Sniperhank]

Your weekly water changes will ensure your corals will get everything they need.
Soft corals and polyps are very easy to keep and low light.

 

[harryggumb]

awesome thats what i like to hear
i figured always better to start with the easy stuff.
Now how many zoas can i introduce at once. I have 3-4 different ones that im interested in. Should i only add 1 or 2 at first or can i add all of them if there aren't many polyps?

 

[Sniperhank]

Doesn't matter.

 

[harryggumb]

any recommendations on places to buy from online?

 

[melosu58]

Liveaquaria has good products. If you want ideas check out my tank pic link in my signature. That is a LPS tank.

 

[bribo12]

What kind are you looking for? Generic or designer Zoas?


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[harryggumb]

Liveaquaria has good products. If you want ideas check out my tank pic link in my signature. That is a LPS tank.

your tank looks awesome! hopefully mine can look like that eventually

 

[harryggumb]

What kind are you looking for? Generic or designer Zoas?


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looking for a combination. Just trying to see if anything catches my eye really

 

[bribo12]

Planetzoa has about every zoanthid you could ever want.


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[harryggumb]

thanks so i ended up purchasing a cleaner shrimp, a royal gramma, Green Star Polyps, Green Bay Packers Zoanthids, Eagle Eye Zoanthid, and Easter Egg Finger Leather. The green Star polyps are begging to open and look great as well as the eagle eye zoas. The green bay packer zoas haven't shown any sign off opening up and either have the Finger leathers. all the parameters are in check but the coral has only been in the water for 5 hours. How long do you think it will be for both the finger and the other zoas to open?

 

[harryggumb]

Now all of them are closed -_-

 

[Mr tap water]

Hi there I wouldn't worry too much at the moment they're probably only adjusting to the change over some corals can take a week or 2 to settle in ,and especially The leather corals are well known for sulking lengths of time.


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