What are your favorite types of corals?

Zoanthids are a good choice for a beginer. They come in tons of different colors and are easy to keep.

 

Hi Crystal,
Good question. I think before you ask what kinds of corals to put in your tank, you should assess what kind of corals you can keep based on how your system is set up. Can you give a profile of your system? What do you have for lighting and filtration? What are your water parameters? How stable has it been and for how long? What livestock do you currently have in there?

--AJ

 

The ones I like are the ones that expensive & die easy.

But in reality, I like a nice colorfull LPS. There are nice flower pots, brains, Acans, Frogspawn, and many other that move with the current, somewhat hardy, and very colorfull.

Craig

 

Personally, even though you're using cycled water and all, I would give things a bit of time to stabilize. Let the bacteria get established in the sand bed, get your new bulbs in place, etc. Once you've given it a few weeks or so, start adding corals, assuming that your water parameters are stable. You can keep most LPS and softies with power compact bulbs. Things such as frogspawn, torch, duncans, acans, plate coral (fungia), cyphestreas, leathers, toadstools, mushrooms, ricordeas, yumas, zoas, palys, and other various polyps like yellow polyps green star polyps, etc.

--AJ

 

AJ is correct. Just because you used live rock, sand and water from another tank does not mean that your tank is not going to cycle. It will probably help shorten it, but it will still happen.

 

I'm personally fond of any coral that stays alive in my tank !