Corals that you regret buying?
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Mark2480
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Green star polyps
Randy Walker
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Grizz717
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Mine has grown over the sand and is growing over an old conch shell. So yes they will grow over sand. My wife loves it though!
I have a rock the size of a softball covered in GSP. It started as a scrap the size of a postage stamp and covered the whole thing in like 8 months. It has never tried creeping over the sand or anything. It looks awesome and is the only thing happy that close to the powerhead. I really like it!
rinckemd
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I regret buying a few of the wild collected corals you see people selling. They often don't adjust well, or change to an undesirable color in the tank. If they don't make it, then I'm just helping destroy and not save reefs. These days if it comes cultured, that's how I buy it, even if it costs me more.
radar_17
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Never had Xenia, but have plenty of Anthelia (similar). All it takes is for the tiniest little fragment of it to settle somewhere and it will grow. I've got a couple small, isolated colonies in my reef and I still end up scraping new polyps off the main reef from time to time... they even end up growing in my sump and refugium.
Ive always known which weed-types to stay away from (thanks to R2R) but I bought a plain red microacan that has grown a lot but very boring. And a deep blue/purple discosoma mushroom that wont stop spitting out babies.
Also, bought a green slimer once and it died within a week
Also, bought a green slimer once and it died within a week
Tom Blevins
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First it was Caps & Monti's but now I have a problem with these! the rock is basketball size
and on the bottom of all my branch tonga bummer!
and on the bottom of all my branch tonga bummer!
radar_17
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I don't know that I "regret" any of these, but have definitely learned to isolate them. GSP, Anthelia, Yuma Ricordea, and green button polyps (palythoa). They all spread quickly, which can be used to advantage. I'm got about half of my back glass and one side glass covered with a combination of these (out of reach of the main reef structures). I've also got 3 different cyphastreas on the glass as well as some red-cap monti. I put the red-cap on my main structure, but am slowly eliminating it to make room for other sps. It quickly takes up a lot of valuable real-estate and shades others in the process. I also put one of the cyphastreas on the main structure (meteor shower), which I may end up regretting, though it is somewhat isolated.
A big, expensive Space Invader Pectinia that my wife insisted on buying at MACNA. It did poorly in our tanks (I tried all 3 of them) and just slowly diet over ~4 months, despite dips, spot feeding, etc. I might get a small one again, but never a big established colony!
icemansixty9
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Agreed on the neon green pocillipora had it get 3'x3'x3' after 13 yrs took it down all the build up underneath released all kinds of bad build up
USMC4Life
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Kenya tree leathers! Currently trying to figure out how to get rid of all mine.
Send it to me lol
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