freshwater corals?

Sawyer

Sawyer

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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?
 
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.
 
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?
 
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.
 
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.
 
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.
 
^ 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?
 
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