freshwater corals?

[Sawyer]

Are there any freshwater corals? I see corals on craigslist all the time, and I'd love to get some since they're so beautiful. And if there is freshwater coral, is there any particular things I'd need to do to care for it? I mean, it is live live rock, right?

[Hurley]

No. To my knowledge there is no such thing as living freshwater coral. However, there are freshwater sponges but I don't know of anyone who has kept one.

If you are looking for something to liven up your tank that isn't fish, you can try live plants. They aren't that hard to keep and they really add another dimension to the tank.

[Lupin]

Corals exist in SW, not FW. The FW ones must be dead and bleached corals.

[Sawyer]

Ah, shoot. yeah, I'll just with plants then. Unless I find any dead corals. I'd have to clean them really well to get the salt out of them, right?

One day I want brackish tanks (fiddler crabs, red clawed crab, and green spotted puffer), could live corals be in their tanks, or do corals need full marine?

[Lupin]

Salt is not the issue. Corals are mainly calcium carbonate that will increase both pH and KH. Some fish won't like the increase of KH particularly those from where the KH is low albeit soft.

[vampie]

There are no freshwater or brackish corals.

[biggdadyapisto]

the freshwater sponges look really cool and some of the people on here order from places that have some i think songuru orders from a place for snails that has them.

[gzeiger]

I haven't had good luck keeping sponges. They have very particular requirements for food and water quality/flow. I do really like them though.

[cam191919]

stay on this site and you'll have a reef tank in no time, thats literally a fact

[Sawyer]

^ lol, I wish, but I don't really have the room and marine tanks seem complicated.

I think it was actually freshwater sponges that I saw on CL, not corals. I might try some of them, one day.

Hurley, do you watch Lost?

[cam191919]

the freshwater sponges would need constant feeding of extreamly tiny live foods, which u would have to breed and manage. a lot more complicated than reef tanks. i wasnt joking, you'll find space, and money. and many coral dont need that complicated of tanks to thrive, just scope out the reef forum a little :D

[vampie]

I like Baikal's sponge reefs, but other than that, I've always found most freshwater sponges too bland to be really worth the effort.

[Sawyer]

oh, a no to the sponges then.

[Arakkis]

There are some interesting indo sponges but they will die off if not kept well, I had one once, it died then little sponges popped up here and there. I think there's an africian one too. I've also found sponges in the Sacramento river too. But I'd rather not mess with those.

One definite concensus, air is very bad for a sponge. (Don't ever let them come in contact with any kind of bubbles, bringing them out of the water, etc)

[Hurley]

Hurley, do you watch Lost?


I do. It happens to be one of my favorite shows but that's not why my username is Hurley. lol!