Corals?

[Fishfriend1]

I have a 30 gal tank with 3 green chromis, 2 clownfish, 1 cardinal fish, 1 dartfish (firefish), 3-4 hermit crabs, 2 turbo snail, 1 small starfish (hitchhiked), 3-4 small snails, and possibly a centipide like thing that came with the live rock. Im thinking about putting in some corals. What corals can i put in it that are cheap, easy to care for, and very hardy? If u can get me some pics i would be very grateful.

Thanks in advance.

 

[kay-bee]

What type of lighting and water flow do you have, and what are your general water parameters (salinity, pH, alkalinity, calcium, etc)?

Very generally, mushrooms, zoanthids and anthelia are hardy soft corals. Caulastrea (candy cane/trumpet coral) is a hardy large-polyp, stony (LPS) coral.

 

[chevyguy86]

My first coral was a pulsing Xenia, they are really hardy, grow really fast and seems to be quite tolerant, even when my entire tank crashed including 2 other corals that was the only thing to survive.

 

[greech]

Ricordea would be a good start...

http://coralmorphologic.com/xcart/home.php?cat=12

as well as zoas and palys...

http://www.worldwidecorals.com/p-148-cat-eyes-zoas.aspx

http://www.worldwidecorals.com/p-140-nuclear-green-palys.aspx

Can't remeber what lights you have but acans, chalices and favia are hardy LPS especially if you spot feed them with mysis. You can get some decent frags of these for $30-$40. They can get expensive though.

http://www.liveaquaria.com/diversden/ItemDisplay.cfm?c=2733+8&ddid=81747

http://www.liveaquaria.com/diversden/ItemDisplay.cfm?c=2733+8&ddid=81470

http://www.juicycorals.com/index.php?main_page=index&cPath=2_13

Then there are all the euphyillias (frogspawns, torch, hammer)

http://www.liveaquaria.com/diversden/ItemDisplay.cfm?c=2733+8&ddid=79071

 

[greech]

My first coral was a pulsing Xenia, they are really hardy, grow really fast and seems to be quite tolerant, even when my entire tank crashed including 2 other corals that was the only thing to survive.

Was going to mention xenia too. Just be careful, it will take over a tank fairly quickly if left unchecked.

 

[Fishfriend1]

wow thanks.
My parims are all fine (at least they were when i checked 3 days ago)
water-flow... well there is a medium (i think) current that flows through most of the tank. The fast current is near the powerhead and my chromis like to school there. Um, lighting is moderate to high (i think, never really compared to a high level tank). Its the generic light that comes with the tank.

Thanks for the links greech they were very helpful.

Here are pics of my tank. Sorry if there blurry.

 

[kay-bee]

If u can get me some pics i would be very grateful.

Here are pics of the corals I mentioned earlier:

Mushrooms

Zoanthids (under actinic lighting)

Anthelia (a close relative to xenia)

Caulastrea

Corals require stronger light than normal output fluorescents.

 

[xsdbs]

looks like you got a good start.

 

[kay-bee]

Was going to mention xenia too. Just be careful, it will take over a tank fairly quickly if left unchecked.

Tell me about it! Here's xenia in my tank:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y9S-hYtbuxM

 

[Fishfriend1]

Those pics are so cool.

I need to feed them calcium right? Im a newb at corals.