Are these corals good choices?

[new reefer in michigan]

Hi everyone. I am finally ready to get some corals. I have a 120 tank that has been going for about 6 years. I have not lost a fish in months and have had an anemone in the tank for about three months that is feeding well and has almost doubled in size since I have had him. I have power compacts which I know are not the most intense lights but I think they will be o.k. for the corals that I want. These are the corals that I think will do the best for me (a beginnner at corals). Cabbage leather. Devils hand. Toad stool leather. Colt coral. My two alternate corals are zoanthid and open brain. I am somewhat reluctant about the brain because I have read that the soft coral secrete a mucus that is toxic to hard corals. Can it be kept save with softs in a big tank? Do you think that these corals are good beginner corals? Thanks for any and all advice.

 

[reefal]

Sure! great choices
here's a progression chain for you in order of easiness and chronological order

1. polyps: yellow, zoanthid, button
2. mushroom polyps/anemones
2. leathers: sacrcophtyon (toadstool)
3. colt corals
4. brains (get one that isn't receding)
5. xenia: elongata are good choice
so there you have it
try getting more than one of each of the above... get like two or 3 and spread them around the tank..

you can have a nice tank with JUST the above!

Thanks
Alex

 

[HARRISON]

Sounds like a good group of corals to me. I thik you will find that alot of the soft corals you mentioned can excrete a slim when they are upset. Usually by being handled or harrased. It shouldn't be a bother to you at all unless you propogate them. I have been using a ten gallon tank to put my cutting in right after the cut. Then I move them over in a couple days after they feel better. If you want you can e-mail me and I have some pictures of them with brief descriptions on my web site...I will be glad to give the web address...

 

[monkeyboy]

Sounds good to me! Now, what do you considder a "devils hand", what comes to my mind is the bright red non-photosynthetic coral that does not do so hot in captivity. Are we talking about the same thing?

FWIW, I don't think that the brain would be much of a problem to add w/ the softies. Reefers mix soft and hard corals all the time, you shouldn't notice any problems.

 

[Mouse]

Further to the Munksters point, if you do expirience any chamical warfare between corals you can allways add carbon. I have soft and hard corals myself and the only one which has become a PITA is the torch coral. But after using decent carbon (not two little fishes hydrogarbage) i manages to remove all of the stinging nemisyses from the water and the trailer tentacles have retracted. I was really starting to get worried about my Bi-colour moon coral (red & green) he was just about to get blatted by them.

 

[new reefer in michigan]

Thanks for the info guys. I would like to see that website please HARRISON, thanks again!