Do you ever have issues keeping specific coral?

[Gumbies R Us]

I am curious to see if you have a specific coral that is hard to keep in your tank. Maybe acros are hard to keep for you, or you have never had a good experience with torches in your tank. Let's discuss those corals that are just stubborn in your tank! Photo Credit: @Jack Ravensbergen

 

[Uncle99]

Long tentacle plates.
Never seen one live past 6 months.

 

[MrGisonni]

Elegance Corals are problematic at times.

 

[eliaslikesfish]

unpopular opinion but I can’t get pulsing xenia to live for more than a month in my tank, placed it in all sorts of flow and different spots of the tank, meanwhile my LPS, other Softies, and 1 montipira are all showing nice growth. I will never understand.

 

[Tommy B]

My alveopora is ok but doesn't seem like its thriving, I'm going to try and move it to a slightly different spot and see what happens

 

[FUNGI]

Pulsing Xenia

 

[Dom]

I am curious to see if you have a specific coral that is hard to keep in your tank. Maybe acros are hard to keep for you, or you have never had a good experience with torches in your tank. Let's discuss those corals that are just stubborn in your tank! Photo Credit: @Jack Ravensbergen

For me, its Brain Coral. Just tried my 3rd frag about 3 months ago. Its covered in Coraline. I give up. LOL

 

[Reefer Matt]

Deep water or smooth skin acros usually don’t survive for me.

 

[Dragen Fiend]

Plate corals, specifically tentacle ones. Litho and fungai.

My long tentacle one lasted a couple of months. My larger litho started to die a week ago. Ended up dipping in iodine bath and water change. Its back to being puffy and tentacles out again! Hopefully the water change solved whatever issue.

 

[codenfx]

Gonis for sure! I’ve had 4 that just faded away. Right now two are recovering when I put them in the shades with no light and low flow. I tried all sorts of setting for them, from low to high light and flow to dosing manganese, they thrive for 2-3 months then start dying.

 

[Mr. Mojo Rising]

For me its cyphastrea, they all die. Sometimes they live for months or even a year, then dies.

 

[Doctorgori]

unpopular opinion but I can’t get pulsing xenia to live for more than a month in my tank, placed it in all sorts of flow and different spots of the tank, meanwhile my LPS, other Softies, and 1 montipira are all showing nice growth. I will never understand.

boom or bust for me also
Also tongue & plate corals give me fits, I won’t buy them..
torches never make it past 1 yr, same with elegance
clove polyps disappear on me

 

[zheka757]

For me its cyphastrea, they all die. Sometimes they live for months or even a year, then dies.

lol, my whole backwall of my 96'' tank is covered in it.

 

[Alexraptor]

Seriatopora Hystrix

As I have finally learned, the dang things require an ungodly amount of indirect flow in order to survive in the long-term and are extremely sensitive to high alk and alk swings. I have a tiny frag/colony that will hit the 1 year mark in about a week, making it my most succesfull attempt to date.

My previous attempt many years ago, never got further than 16 weeks.

Week 1, all is well:

Weel 16, RTN sets in from the tips and the colony is gone in a matter of days after this.

 

[DDenny]

Favia for me not sure why but that’s the one I have tried twice and both within 2 months goners. Both frags were freebies but still hate that.

 

[Gumbies R Us]

unpopular opinion but I can’t get pulsing xenia to live for more than a month in my tank, placed it in all sorts of flow and different spots of the tank, meanwhile my LPS, other Softies, and 1 montipira are all showing nice growth. I will never understand.

Really? That is interesting; they don't grow well for you!

 

[Gumbies R Us]

Favia for me not sure why but that’s the one I have tried twice and both within 2 months goners. Both frags were freebies but still hate that.

That is one coral I have wanted to try, but have not gotten one just yet

 

[TehBrainz]

I cant seem to keep chalice corals. I've only tried about 4 times, but each time I just slowly watch them fade away.

 

[i cant think]

I am curious to see if you have a specific coral that is hard to keep in your tank. Maybe acros are hard to keep for you, or you have never had a good experience with torches in your tank. Let's discuss those corals that are just stubborn in your tank! Photo Credit: @Jack Ravensbergen

For the life of me I can’t grow;
GSP and Zoas.

 

[Gumbies R Us]

For the life of me I can’t grow;
GSP and Zoas.

I've heard from some people that zoas are hard for them to keep, but others have these vast colonies.