Got to reminescing: what was your first coral?

[Len]

While I love my new tank (the algae is finally going away! ), I still occasionally reminesce about my first 10 gallon tank and my green open brain coral more then 20 years ago. I think I'll have to go buy me a brain coral this week

What was your first coral?

 

[Anonymous]

Aptiasia!

jk.

Don't remember now... I think it was a colt coral.

 

[Len]

Hehe. Maybe I'm too sentimental I can still remember my 10 gallon with remarkable clarity. I remember how I felt when I bought my first coral and also how much i loved Elegance corals back then (as a kid, I couldn't afford them at the time).

 

[Anonymous]

Green Star polyps and a cabbage leather. Bought them the same day back in 98.

 

[trigger0214]

15 gallon and a very short lived flower pot....ah, the memories.

 

[Unarce]

My first was an open brain (Trachyphyllia radiata) back in '92. I remember how expensive actinic bulbs were back then, and I initially tried to get away with one daylight and one cheap blacklight bulb from Orchard Supply :lol:

 

[waymack97]

green and brown zoanthid that came in on some live rock. still have and is doing good, thanks to all of the advice i got here.
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[Anonymous]

Green-tip torch in a 30-gallon, 9 years ago...

Peace,

Chip

 

[MartinE]

Sarcophyton elegans, yellow Fiji leather. Still have it and still love it

 

[Anonymous]

Elegance coral - they were hardy, once in the old days... sigh...

 

[Ben1]

green palythoas back in 95', finally just sold them all off when I got rid of my softie tank.

 

[ChrisRD]

Several different types of zoanthids and mushrooms that hitched-in on my live rock back in '96...

 

[Anonymous]

Hair algae of course! :twisted:




JK

First coral was a finger leather. I still have a small piece in my tank from where I removed and sold the original colony.
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[Rob Top]

Zoas and shrooms. But the 1st "real" coral was a bubble the size of my fist. By real I mean the 1st thing that cost me some money. I love shrooms and zoas, but untill you drop $50 on something it just isn't the same. Then it's $100, then $150...$200 Those are CORALS. I still have the bubble, 6 yrs old and bigger than my head

 

[Anonymous]

Mushroom that hitchhiked on my rock.

First purchased coral, Leather Toadstool.

 

[Anonymous]

I can't remember. I set up my first tank back in the 80's.

 

[Anonymous]

My first couple, purchased at the same time, were assorted mushrooms and some green zoos.

Still have both after several years now, gave away a buch of the ones that had spread onto other rocks.

 

[stubbsz]

1998 I think... Colt coral and a Xenia. Xenia melted in a day. Colt has paid for itself about 20 times over in frags I've passed on... but now I'm trying to frag it away to nothing as it tends to burn my sps corals on contact and I really want to have more sps.

-Adrian

 

[Anonymous]

Elegance coral - they were hardy, once in the old days... sigh...

Yup, that was my first coral way back when and it lived for 6 years without so much as a torn tenticle...sigh.

 

[smit1260]

Xenia,
It grew like a weed, but that was good because it was back when you could get some real money for it!!!

Dave