10 beautiful but easy corals

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i need a list of 10 corals that are not to fussy to grow, its a 29 gallon T-5HO 1- 10,000k and one atinic blue. i dose calcium and Ph 8.4 by aquavite. i can does other things, and i have no problem feeding a photo feast to things
 

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Why are you dosing calcium?


Anyways...
Kenya/Colt/whatever Tree Coral
(standard) Toadstool Leather
Sinularia
Green-Star Polyps
Xenia (oddly enough, it is either indestructible or impossible to grow, depending on the tank)
Just about anything in similar groups to the above two (Pipe Organ, Clove, Sympodium, etc.)


Some others should be able to supply more of a list since mine is just about entirely softies.
Of course, hardy and easy to grow does have it's downsides. Hence why just about everything on the above list (minus the leathers) has a strong potential for overrunning the tank.
 

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Your question is kind of odd because feeding phyto is typically done for the more "fussy" corals.

My top 10 (cost not taken into account)...

Scolymia
Acans
Chalices
Favia/Favities
Euphyllia (hammers, torches, frogspawns)
Trachyphyllia
Duncan
Fungia
Ricordea
Trumpets/Candy Cane
 

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The ones I like and are easy:

Actinodiscus (Mushrooms)
Favia (Brain)
Montipora
Zoos (Zoanthid)
Green Star Poiyps
Sarcophyton (Toadstools)
Euphyllia (but only like the torch)
Bubble Coral

Those were my corals that I find easy and good looking.

I LOVE Xenia, I love they way they open and close, like a grasping hand. But they are finicky. It can grow wild one day, and be all dead the next.
 

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i have phyto feast, i use it for my wood shrimp in my freshwater. i use the calcium because with my standard water, my tank only gets to about 200, when i dose the calcium i can reach 400. thank you every one for your speedy responses, and all the suggestions
Ben
 

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should i be doseing iodine, strontium, and trace??
 

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What salt are you using? At the moment if you have no corals yet that require additional elements I wouldn't bother dosing. Though if you have invert's IMO iodine dosing and keeping the Ca. up can be helpful for molting.
 
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