Best begginer coral that looks like a anemone?

[WalkerLovesTheOcean]

Hey everyone, I am currently trying to get ideas for my 15G nano tank (check out my build thread), I love the movement and flow SOME anenomes add to tank. I want to try to add movement to my tank, without going through all the headaches with anemones. Torches definitely bring the most flow, but the price tag is not pretty. I am a beginner, so any coral that goes in might not last long, so I don't want to spend 100 dollars or more on a coral. Anyone got any other corals that bring movement to a tank?

 

[crazyfishmom]

Duncans are great beginner corals that love flow and open like anemones.

 

[X-37B]

Frogspawn.
Here is my old one.

 

[WalkerLovesTheOcean]

Frogspawn.
Here is my old one.

I definitely am going to get one!

 

[WalkerLovesTheOcean]

Duncans are great beginner corals that love flow and open like anemones.

I like them, I will look in to them!

 

[crazyfishmom]

Frogspawn.
Here is my old one.

This is a beautiful fropgspawn. Is this a branching variety?

 

[Katrina71]

Doesn't look like a nem, but Xenia and gsp flow pretty. Just isolate them on a rock or they can get out of hand.

 

[WalkerLovesTheOcean]

Doesn't look like a nem, but Xenia and gsp flow pretty. Just isolate them on a rock or they can get out of hand.

I was planning on growing GSP on my back glass, because they grow like a weed and are dirt cheap compared to other corals!

 

[DrkNMighty]

Another option on the soft coral side would be something like a toadstool or kenya tree. Just be careful with the kenya trees because they can get out of hand.

 

[crazyfishmom]

Kenya trees are also pretty cheap and grow well.

 

[Katrina71]

My pulsing hand xenia

 

[X-37B]

This is a beautiful fropgspawn. Is this a branching variety?

Yea it started with about 4 heads.
Over 20 in the pic. It was also home to a single clown.
Another older pic.

 

[Aaron75]

Toadstool

 

[Katrina71]

 

[WalkerLovesTheOcean]

Yea it started with about 4 heads.
Over 20 in the pic. It was also home to a single clown.
Another older pic.

This is off topic, but I really want clown fish, but when mating they get really aggressive, so I was thinking of getting just 1, so I don't have to worry about aggression. How did that go for you? Did the clown fish seem any different than having a mate?

 

[Katrina71]

 

[X-37B]

This is off topic, but I really want clown fish, but when mating they get really aggressive, so I was thinking of getting just 1, so I don't have to worry about aggression. How did that go for you? Did the clown fish seem any different than having a mate?

All clowns are different. I had to move the frogspawn to the back near the overflow, first pic. It would draw blood every time I put my hand in the water.
Once I moved it to the back it was fine.
I had a breeding pair in my 30 that kept to their nem.

 

[WalkerLovesTheOcean]

All clowns are different. I had to move the frogspawn to the back near the overflow, first pic. It would draw blood every time I put my hand in the water.
Once I moved it to the back it was fine.
I had a breeding pair in my 30 that kept to their nem.

The clownfish can actually puncture skin?

 

[X-37B]

The clownfish can actually puncture skin?

They have teeth, lol, yes.

 

[WalkerLovesTheOcean]

They have teeth, lol, yes.

Omg, I did not know that! That's scary, lol.